Domestic Strategies: Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600 1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521391641)

Domestic Strategies offers a new reading of the historical sources in order to understand the social relations and strategies of laboring families toward the organization of productive processes and institutional arrangements in early modern Europe. In contrast to many other works, the essays in Domestic Strategies place laboring families as the actors on the historical scene, rather than as passive recipients of historical changes. Conceptual insights derived from both anthropology (Sahlins and Geertz) and sociology (Bourdieu, Elias and Mary Douglas) are applied to individual case studies of social groups from north-central Italy and the French Alps, and the whole offers an important new perspective on the working lives of European families during the early modern period and beyond.

Author: Stuart Woolf
ISBN-10: 0521391644
ISBN-13: 9780521391641
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/22/1991
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d