| Description |
1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Family and Kinship: Continuity and Change -- 1. The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change -- 2. The Dynamics of Kin in an Industrial Community -- 3. A Complex Relationship: Family Strategies and the Processes of Economic and Social Change -- pt. 2. Studying Lives in Time and Place -- 4. Historical Changes in Children's Network in the Family and Community -- 5. Aging and Generational Relations: A Historical and Life-Course Perspective -- 6. Synchronizing Individual Time, Family Time, and Historical Time -- 7. The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community -- 8. Rising Above Life's Disadvantage: From the Great Depression to War -- 9. Changing Images of Aging and the Social Construction of the Life Course -- pt. 3. Comparative Perspectives -- 10. Between Craft and Industry: The Subjective Reconstruction of the Life Course of Kyoto's Traditional Weavers -- 11. The Festival's Work as Leisure: The Traditional Craftsmen of the Gion Festival -- 12. Divorce, Chinese Style -- pt. 4. Broader Perspectives -- 13. Family Change and Historical Change: An Uneasy Relationship -- 14. What Difference Does It Make? |
| Summary |
Annotation Hareven (family studies and history, U. of Delaware) challenges the myth of the American family as once having existed as a harmonious unit with three generations living together, and as breaking down under the impact of urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on detailed research from a variety of sources (including extensive oral history interviews of ordinary people), she examines major changes in family life and covers issues such as the organization of the family and household, the networks available to children as they grow up, the role of the family in the process of industrialization, the division of labor along gender lines, and the relations between the generations in the later years of life. |
| Audience |
Trade Westview Press. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Families.
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Conduct of life.
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Space and time.
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| Added Author |
Trepagnier, Barbara, author.
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| ISBN |
0813390796 (Trade Paper) |
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9780813390796 |
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