The industrious revolution
Subtitle: consumer behavior and the household economy, 1650 to the present
By: Jan de Vries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780521895026; 9780521719254
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- History; Consumers -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The transformation of consumer desire in the long eighteenth century; title: The origins of the industrious revolution; title: The industrious revolution : the supply of labor; title: The industrious revolution : consumer demand; title: The breadwinner-homemaker household; title: A second industrious revolution?