Industrialisation and Everyday Life

by Rudolf Braun , Translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison

• ISBN13: 9780521619295
• ISBN10: 0521619297
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Industrialising und Volksleben by Rudolf Braun is widely regarded as a classic of modern social history, inspiring a whole series of profound debates about the transition from pre-industrial society to the modern world. Utilising evidence from an upland Swiss canton, Industrialisation and Everyday Life provides a comprehensive survey of the impact upon popular life styles of the development of widespread cottage industry, as land-hungry labourers added textile manufacture to their existing agricultural concerns. Professor Braun analyses the structure of such 'proto-industry', looking at the changes wrought upon family life, domestic housing and popular culture in general. A great variety of literary and artistic sources are drawn together in a vivid portrayal of the ways in which early industrial development and social modernisation became fused together.

Table of Contents

Prefaces	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Note on measures and coinage	xi
Introduction	1	(7)
1 The preconditions for industrialisation	8	(29)
2 Changes to the structure of family and population in the industrial regions	37	(24)
3 Life and society of the population engaged in industry	61	(50)
4 The impact of industrialisation on the house and the rural economy	111	(20)
5 Work in the putting-out industry and its effect on the life of the common people	131	(23)
6 The outworkers' attitude to poverty and crises	154	(30)
7 Conclusion	184	(4)
Postscript, by Ulrich Pfister	188	(5)
Appendix: a note on the administrative structure and social stratification in the countryside of Zurich during the Ancient Regime, by Ulrich Pfister	193	(2)
Notes	195	(28)
Sources and bibliography	223	(4)
Index	227