Industrialisation and Everyday Life

A great variety of literary and artistic sources are drawn together in a vivid portrayal.

Rudolf Braun (Author), Sarah Hanbury Tenison (Translated by)

9780521619295, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 February 2005

244 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm, 0.35 kg

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.

Prefaces
Acknowledgements
Notes on measures and coinage
Introduction
1. The preconditions for industrialisation
2. Changes to the structure of family and population in the industrial regions
3. Life and society of the population engaged in industry
4. The impact of industrialisation on the house and the rural economy
5. Work in the putting-out industry and its effect on the life of the common people
6. The outworkers' attitude to poverty and crises
7. Conclusion
Postscript
Appendix
Notes
Sources and bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]