Household Strategies for Survival 1600-2000 : Fission, Faction and Cooperation Paperback / softback
Edited by Laurence (European University Institute, Florence) Fontaine, Jurgen (Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte, Goettingen) Schlumbohm
Part of the International Review of Social History Supplements series
Paperback / softback
Description
In pre-industrial Europe, as in developing countries today, much of the population had to struggle to survive.
The livelihood of all those who lived by the work of their hands was highly insecure.
This book considers the 'labouring poor' not simply as victims, but as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival.
These strategies included many economic activities. Building and maintaining networks of kinship and neighbourhood was equally important, as was negotiating support from institutions.
Sometimes, strategies were successfully integrated within a household, while in other instances the domestic group was split and members preferred to pursue individual strategies.
This illuminating book examines the European past using case studies from present-day situations in Asia and Africa.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages, 5 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/02/2001
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- ISBN:9780521001427
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages, 5 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/02/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521001427
