Tilly / Shorter Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6075-4
Verlag: Elsevier Reference Monographs
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 209 Seiten

Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism deals with the impact of early capitalism on the strategies of family formation among four sets of English villagers in the period before the wholesale switch-over to factory industry. This era, roughly speaking from 1550 to 1850, has been variously described as ''traditional,'' ''preindustrial,'' and, more recently, ''protoindustrial.'' However, the author sees it as a stage in the transition from feudalism to capitalism-a halfway house.
The book begins by placing the study in the context of the larger debate concerning nascent capitalism, early rural industrialization, and the growth of population. Separate chapters then discuss the growth and structure of the framework knitting industry in Shepshed and the social implications of this economic change; the patterns of immigration, population turnover, and generational replacement in Shepshed and Bottesford; and industrial involution and domestic organization in 1851. Subsequent chapters deal with the demographic implications of rural industrialization; the relationship between economic opportunity and family formation; and relationships among the expectation of marriage, bridal pregnancy, and illegitimacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tilly, Charles

Shorter, Edward

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Dedication;6
6;List of Figures and Tables;10
7;Acknowledgments;14
8;CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION;16
9;CHAPTER 2. THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND;31
10;CHAPTER 3. ...IGRATI.., ...UL.TI.. TURNOVER, AND GENERA.ONAL REPLACEMENT;50
11;CHAPTER 4. INDUSTRIAL INVOLUTION AND DOMESTIC .RGANIZATI.. IN 1851;60
12;CHAPTER 5. THE DEMOGRAPHIC ...LICATI..S OF RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION;73
13;CHAPTER 6. ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND FAMILY FORMATI..: THE CASE OF BOTTESFORD;103
13.1;APPENDIX: CRISIS MORTALITY IN BOTTESFORD;115
14;CHAPTER 7. COLYTON REVISITED;118
15;CHAPTER 8. PROLETARIANIZATON AND PAUPERISM: THE CASE OF TERLING;131
16;CHAPTER 9. ILLEGITIMACY: MARRIAGE FRUSTRATED, NOT PROMISCUITY RAMPANT;142
17;CHAPTER 10. CONCLUSION;161
18;APPENDIX: THE RELIABILITY OF PAROCHIAL REGISTRATON AND THE REPRESENTATIVENESS OF FAMILY RECONSTITUTION;168
19;REFERENCES;190
20;INDEX;208