Recombinant Family Formation Strategies1
David K. Levine
In contrast to the ‘modernization’ model of demographic change, popularized by publications European Fertility Project, this paper sets revolution in family life an historical perspective. First, I briefly consider creation a distinctly north-west system production and reproduction; second, discuss how regime led emergence revolutionary solution population/resources squeeze early modern England; third, it came be severely dis-equilibrated period industrialization, urbanization improvements life-expectation which became generalized age Industrial Revolution; and, fourth, propose that re-equilibration we celebrate within rubric Demographic Transition can perhaps more effectively understood as both innovation adjustment occurred response ruptures - economic, cultural political engendered twin processes material change state formation.
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