The Family and Industrial Society

First published in 1983, the origin of this book is found in an article where the author attempted to relate traditional research on the family to developments in historical enquiry and Marxist scholarship. The aim here is to explain the character of the contemporary family by placing it in a wider historical and theoretical perspective.

C. C. Harris

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Introductory. Section I: Basics 1. Kinship 2. Marriage 3. Family Section II: The Family and Industrial Society - the Functionalist Approach 4. The 'Fit' between Family and Society 5. The Family and Individual Mobility Part 2: Exploratory. Section I: Historical Understandings 6. The English Family before Industrialisation 7. Family and Industrialisation 8. The Character of English Family Life before Industrialisation 9. Distinguishing Family Types in Capitalist-Industrial Society Section II: Marxist Perspectives 10. The Household and Family under Capitalism Section III: The Family in Contemporary Britain 11. Official Statistics and the Decline of the Family 12. The Sociology of the Elementary Family. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.