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The Business of Everyday Life
Beverly Lemire
其他書名
Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, C. 1600-1900
出版Manchester University Press, 2005
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / Economic HistoryHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)History / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)Social Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Gender Studies
ISBN07190722209780719072222
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zWSogx0jLIMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In times past, everyday business might mean making a trip to the pawnbroker, giving a loan to a trusted friend of selling off a coat, all to make ends meet. Both women and men engaged in this daily budgeting, but women's roles were especially important in achieving some level of comfort and avoiding penury. In some communities, the daily practices in place in the seventeenth century persisted into the twentieth, whilst other groups adopted new ways, such as using numbers to chart domestic affairs and turning to the savings banks that appeared in the nineteenth century. These strategies promised respectability and greater access to new consumer goods: better clothes and finer furnishings accompanied a newly disciplined behaviour.

Therefore, in the material world of the past and in the changing habits of earlier generations lie crucial turning points. This book explores these previously under-researched patterns and practices that gave shape to modern consumer society.