This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes
in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth
century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties
facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying particular
attention to the texture of women's everyday lives. She shows their
strength as they attempted to structure a life and set of
relationships within a social order, culture, community, and the
law. Within a climate of calamities, the poor relied on their own
resourcefulness and community connections where the boundaries
between the private and public were indistinguishable, and on a
system of exchange and reciprocity to help them fashion their
culture of expediencies. This accessible synthesis introduces
readers to conflicting interpretations of major historic
developments and evaluates those interpretations. It will be
essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban
history and social and family history.
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