Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: Demography, Economy, and Society in Rufiji District, C. 1870-1986 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198287544)

Combining demography, history, and sociology, this book offers a new methodology for the study of African fertility and a new definition of the role of household demography in agrarian economies. It provides a useful perspective on the ways in which human reproduction both reflects upon and reacts with the reproduction trends of society and economy in coastal Tanzania. Part I asserts a political economy of changing fertility; Part II studies the implications of demographic patterns for people's work-loads and economic fortunes at the individual and household levels.

Author: Matthew Lockwood
ISBN-10: 0198287542
ISBN-13: 9780198287544
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 06/04/1998
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.30w x 0.96d