It’s back! The REALLY USEFUL Family History Show is scheduled for November 10-12, 2022. Get details at www.fhf-reallyuseful.com/
I have another presentation set for this event, this one about the Industrious Revolution…and its effects on families.
If you are
wondering what that is all about, it was the period from the mid-17th
to the mid-18th centuries, leading up to the more well-known Industrial
Revolution which encompassed a change from an economy focused on
agriculture and handcraft production to one dominated by powered machinery and
centralized, mass production industries.
In a book titled The Industrious Revolution,
published in 2008, author Jan de Vries took the view that “[i]n a specific
historical period in a specific geographical zone, a new form of household
economic behavior became increasingly influential, increasing simultaneously
the supply of market-oriented production and the demand for a broad but not
indiscriminate range of consumer goods.”
The consumption-driven family household, then, would be considered as a unique economic unit that contributed to goods-purchasing behaviors in society. The system was primarily evident in northwestern Europe (England, the Low countries and parts of France and Germany) and the North American colonies.
The
presentation will look at what defines the Industrious Revolution, its timing
with respect to the Little Ice Age and the following Industrial Revolution.
There are a host of other great talks and some useful workshops, too. Come and have a listen.
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