Industrialization, Family Life, and Class Relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 - Couverture rigide

Accampo, Elinor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520060954 ISBN 13 : 9780520060951

Editeur : University of California Press, 1989

Synopsis

In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, marriages, and migration, the author analyzes the ways in which the family responded to changes in the organization of work. In the first half of the nineteenth century work was in the home, and families tended to be large in order to meet the demand for workers. But by the 1860s the mechanization of labor had begun to separate family life and work life, fundamentally transforming the relationship between work and family and making the survival of the working-class family more difficult. Accampo argues that workers began to have smaller families much earlier than has previously been suggested, and she demonstrates that fertility declined for reasons unique to working-class conditions. This decline in family size, and the context in which it took place, provides fascinating new material for understanding the working class world and the dynamics of class relations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Elinor Accampo is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520060954
• ISBN 13: 9780520060951
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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