SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Piece Work, Nuclear Family, Advantageous
12 Nov 2020
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Bettina bradbury: social historian, used archival data to study working-class families in late 19th c. montreal. Describe the changes that occurred in society and the economy in the 19th c. during the development of industrialization. As industrialization developed, family economies were replaced by family wage economies: family members worked for wages and shared them to survive economically, family no longer a unit of production, but a unit of shared consumption. Origins of family patterns familiar to contemporary families emerge in 19th c. During 18th to 19th c. , people in england began to lose their land. Development of two classes during this period: 1. People lost ability to support themselves from work in the home or craftshops: work and working conditions now determined by capitalists and owners. For the working class, world of work under industrialization was uncertain, cruel, hazardous, and unfriendly. French canadians migrated to manchester, new hampshire from 1880 to 1930.
