Household Strategies for Survival 1600–2000
Fission, Faction and Cooperation
Part of International Review of Social History Supplements
- Editors:
- Laurence Fontaine, European University Institute, Florence
- Jürgen Schlumbohm, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
- Date Published: February 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521001427
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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.
Read more- Its pedagogical approach means that it could be used as a textbook for university courses
- Bridges gap between the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and history
- Uses contemporary case studies from developing countries to analyse seventeenth to nineteenth century European history
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- Date Published: February 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521001427
- length: 200 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.312kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Household strategies for survival: an introduction Laurence Fontaine and Jürgen Schlumbohm
Negotiating a living: Essex pauper letters from London, 1800–1834 Thomas Sokoll
'It is extreme necessity that makes me do this': some 'survival strategies' of pauper households in London's West End during the early eighteenth century Jeremy Boulton
Using microcredit and restructuring households: two complementary survival strategies in late eighteenth-century Basrcelona Montserrat Carbonell
Poor Jewish families in early modern rural Swabia Sabine Ullmann
Industrious households: survival strategies of artisans in a Southwest German town during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Dennis A. Frey Jr.
Individualization strategies among city dwellers in contemporary Africa: balancing the shortcomings of community solidarity and the individualism of the struggle for survival Alain Marie
Finding the right balance: financial self-help organizations as sources of security and insecurity in urban Indonesia Hotze Lont
Stepping on two boats: urban strategies of Chinese peasants and their children Danyu Wang.
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