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Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History

Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History

Levine, David
Goody, Jack
David P., Levine

Paperback

Series: Themes in the Social Sciences

General Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521337852
ISBN13: 9780521337854
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 27 1987
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Reviewing the course of English population history from 1066 to the eighties, this book challenges orthodoxies about the evolution of English family forms, and offers a bold interpretation of the inter-connections between social, economic, demographic and family history. Taking as the point of departure the well-known observations that England was the first industrial society, that it was the first society to have its peasantry replaced by proletarians and that it was a society that was always dominated by nuclear family households, the main question David Levine asks is how these elements were connected in time and space. In answering this, he looks to contemporaneous changes in the labour process, and, in particular, to the disposition of labour within the family. His central theme is the impact of proletarianisation on family formation. He argues that the explosive transformations of family and demography that occurred between 1780 and 1815 were the culmination of a protracted transition from a feudal to a capitalist social structure; and that the post-1870 decline in marital fertility took place within a context of demographic, familial, social and political adjustments which were themselves a response to the earlier population explosion.

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