Household Strategies for Survival 1600-2000 - Fission, Faction and Cooperation

Considers the 'labouring poor' as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival.

List of contents

Household strategies for survival: an introduction Laurence Fontaine and Jürgen Schlumbohm; Negotiating a living: Essex pauper letters from London, 1800¿1834 Thomas Sokoll; 'It is extreme necessity that makes me do this': some 'survival strategies' of pauper households in London's West End during the early eighteenth century Jeremy Boulton; Using microcredit and restructuring households: two complementary survival strategies in late eighteenth-century Basrcelona Montserrat Carbonell; Poor Jewish families in early modern rural Swabia Sabine Ullmann; Industrious households: survival strategies of artisans in a Southwest German town during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Dennis A. Frey Jr.; Individualization strategies among city dwellers in contemporary Africa: balancing the shortcomings of community solidarity and the individualism of the struggle for survival Alain Marie; Finding the right balance: financial self-help organizations as sources of security and insecurity in urban Indonesia Hotze Lont; Stepping on two boats: urban strategies of Chinese peasants and their children Danyu Wang.

Summary

This book considers the 'labouring poor' as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival. Building and maintaining networks of kinship and neighbourhood was equally important, as was negotiating support from institutions. This illuminating book examines the European past using case studies from present-day situations in Asia and Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Schlumbohm Fontaine
• Assisted by: Laurence Fontaine (Editor), Lawrence Fontaine (Editor), J. Rgen Schlumbohm (Editor), Jurgen Schlumbohm (Editor), Jürgen Schlumbohm (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2001
• EAN: 9780521001427
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00142-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: International Review of Social; International Review of Social
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics