SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chain Migration, Family Wage, Nuclear Family
20 Nov 2018
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Pre-industrial society cont: economic constraints related to later age of marriage and not marrying, endogamous marriages, care of the elderly, widows lived with kids, family losing functions related to sf. In preindustrial society marriage was mostly shaped by economic considerations, but love was also a consideration. If you plan to marry, how important is love or economic consideration as a reason to wed. Impact of land enclosures in england: lost access to land, try to sell labour for wages, working class comes into existence. Industrial work is hazardous: children constantly dying, work is uncertain, capitalists reliant on families. Hareven: dynamics of kin in an industrial community, 1880-1930 kin networks among french canadians who migrated to manchester.
