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Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism

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David Levine

Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism

Book1977

 

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David Levine

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    1 - INTRODUCTION

    Pages 1-15

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    2 - THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND

    Pages 16-34

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    3 - IMMIGRATION, POPULATION TURNOVER, AND GENERATIONAL REPLACEMENT

    Pages 35-44

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    4 - INDUSTRIAL INVOLUTION AND DOMESTIC ORGANIZATION IN 1851

    Pages 45-57

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    5 - THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION

    Pages 58-87

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    6 - ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND FAMILY FORMATION: THE CASE OF BOTTESFORD

    Pages 88-102

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    7 - COLYTON REVISITED

    Pages 103-115

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    8 - PROLETARIANIZATION AND PAUPERISM: THE CASE OF TERLING

    Pages 116-126

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    9 - ILLEGITIMACY: MARRIAGE FRUSTRATED, NOT PROMISCUITY RAMPANT

    Pages 127-145

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    10 - CONCLUSION

    Pages 146-152

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    APPENDIX - THE RELIABILITY OF PAROCHIAL REGISTRATION AND THE REPRESENTATIVENESS OF FAMILY RECONSTITUTION

    Pages 153-174

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    REFERENCES

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    INDEX

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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.

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.

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978-0-12-445050-9

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English

Published

1977

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Copyright © 1977 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Academic Press

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Authors

David Levine

Department of History and Philosophy, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada