Size and structure of households in a northern French village between 1836 and 1861

If China and Western Europe Are So Similar, Why Did China Not Have an Industrial Revolution?

“…Late nineteenth-century yearbooks for the departément of Doubs reported a several shortage of labour in the countryside which, in due course, was replaced by horse-drawn machinery (see Layton 2000, 261 ff.). The higher frequency of nuclear families with juvenile children in the 1972 data is here a consequence, rather than a cause, of the industrial revolution (compare Blayo 1972).…”

Household Dynamics in a Nineteenth Century Swiss Village

“…The apparent departure of T6rbel households from a conjugal family model runs counter to nuclearizing and isolating tendencies elsewhere in Europe (cf. Blayo, 1972).…”