Business of Everyday Life
Business of Everyday Life From 1600 to 1900 a growing consumerism fired the English economy, shaping the priorities of individuals, and determining the allocation of resources within…
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Business of Everyday Life
From 1600 to 1900 a growing consumerism fired the English economy, shaping the priorities of individuals, and determining the allocation of resources within families.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. 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. 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.
This book explores these previously under-researched In the material world of the past and in the changing habits of earlier generations lie crucial turning points.
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