Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community

By Angelique Janssens

Book Overview

This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialization on the strength of relationships within the family and between generations. Dr. Janssens' quantitative approach, based on Dutch population registers, reveals a new perspective: although family life did go through some changes, early industrialization did not lead to the destruction of nineteenth-century family life, as the traditionally dominant view contended. This innovative study also illuminates wider social issues--the nature of hierarchies, class structure and household organization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521892155
• ISBN13: 9780521892155
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 6.5"