Between the Fields and the City Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861}}}1914 [Hardcover]

Charts the personal dimensions of economic social change by examining the migration of Russian peasant women's from the village to the city in the years between 1861 and the outbreak of World War I.Examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration, this study charts the personal dimensions of economic and social change from village to factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the outbreak of World War I.Examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration, this study charts the personal dimensions of economic and social change from village to factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the outbreak of World War I.This book charts the personal dimensions of economic and social change by examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration from the village to the factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the outbreak of World War I. The author uses case studies to explore the effects of urbanization and industrialization on the relationship of the migrant to the peasant household, and on family life and personal relations. It differs from other studies in looking at both village and city; in treating personal life, and in drawing on a wealth of archival data, most of it for the first time. The focus on women and the family provides a fresh perspective on the social history of late Imperial Russia.List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Patriarchy and its discontents; 2. The woman's side; 3. Out to work; 4. Between the fields and the factory; 5. On their own in the city; 6. Women in the margins/marginalising women; 7. Making a home in the city; Conclusion; A note on sources; Index. The chief contribution of Barbara Engel's important and groundbreaking study of peasant women in Russia's central industrial region lies in the sheerlSï