Industrialisation and Everyday Life is widely regarded as a classic
of modern social history, inspiring a whole series of profound
debates about the transition from preindustrial society to the
modern world. Charles Tilly recently wrote of this book that it was
"the most important untranslated work of social history to be
published in the past generation." With the publication of Sarah
Hanbury-Tenison's translation, this gap in the social and cultural
historiography of modern Europe is filled at last. Utilizing
evidence from an upland Swiss canton, the author provides a
comprehensive survey of the impact of the development of widespread
cottage industry on popular lifestyles as land hungry laborers
added textile manufacture to their existing agricultural concerns.
He analyzes 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 modernization became
fused together.
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