Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prefaces
- Acknowledgements
- Note on measures and coinage
- Introduction
- 1 The preconditions for industrialisation
- 2 Changes to the structure of family and population in the industrial regions
- 3 Life and society of the population engaged in industry
- 4 The impact of industrialisation on the house and the rural economy
- 5 Work in the putting-out industry and its effect on the life of the common people
- 6 The outworkers' attitude to poverty and crises
- 7 Conclusion
- Postscript
- Appendix: a note on the administrative structure and social stratification in the countryside of Zurich during the Ancien Régime
- Notes
- Sources and bibliography
- Index
Prefaces
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prefaces
- Acknowledgements
- Note on measures and coinage
- Introduction
- 1 The preconditions for industrialisation
- 2 Changes to the structure of family and population in the industrial regions
- 3 Life and society of the population engaged in industry
- 4 The impact of industrialisation on the house and the rural economy
- 5 Work in the putting-out industry and its effect on the life of the common people
- 6 The outworkers' attitude to poverty and crises
- 7 Conclusion
- Postscript
- Appendix: a note on the administrative structure and social stratification in the countryside of Zurich during the Ancien Régime
- Notes
- Sources and bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the preface to the second edition I mentioned that since the publishing of this work in the year 1960 cottage industry – under the new terminology ‘proto-industry’ – has received increased attention in social and economic historical reasearch, a tendency that still continues today. Therefore, the publisher's wish to take this historiographic situation into account and to summarise in a longer postscript the more recent research history as well as the latest research results is quite legitimate. Two reasons prevent me, however, from writing such an outline myself. First of all, I feel more like the grandfather of the youngest research generation which is presently working on proto-industrial subjects and problems. Secondly, my teaching commitments as well as my own research interest have, for many years now, led me away from the subject of proto-industry so that I have not followed the most recent developments closely and intensively enough. I have, therefore, asked one of my assistants, Ulrich Pfister, to write the requested postscript. He is part of the younger research generation and works in the field of proto-industrialisation on his own projects. Thus, the pen is passed on to the grandson.
Rudolf BraunPreface to the second (German) edition
Well brought up young ladies used to be taught ‘not to put themselves forward’, an essential part of the education provided in the better girls' boarding schools in the nineteenth century. It may well appear that I too have learnt not to put myself forward: for years I have been wondering whether to revise Industrialisation and Everyday Life but I could never decide to do it and even now I find it hard.
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- Industrialisation and Everyday Life , pp. vii - ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990