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Family Structure and Proto-industrialization in Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Richard L. Rudolph
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Abstract

The experience of Russia is examined to establish whether the area underwent a process of proto-industrialization comparable to that found in Western Europe. It is argued that the process did take place in this region, even with unfree labor, and served as the basis for much later industrial development. It is also argued that the Russian case differed a good deal from that found in the West. The major factors operating to make the pattern different include the previous existence of the “non- European” marriage pattern, marked differences in family and household structure, the relative immobility of labor, and the degree to which there were half-peasant, half-manufacturing households that dominated much of manufacture.

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Papers Presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 1980 , pp. 111 - 118
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1980

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1 This is an abbreviated version of a forthcoming study on proto-industrialization in Eastern Europe as a whole.

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