Rebellious Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. In most cases, the research has focused on what people do when they rebel, and not why they rebel. By offering an alternative perspective, based on the survival of families through collective action, this volume opens up a promising new field of historical research: the intersection of labour and family history.