Classifying Individuals by Their Participation in the Production System: The ‘Active’ and ‘Inactive’ Populations in Late 19th-Century France.
The partition of the French population into ‘active’ and ‘inactive’ subpopulations, a 19th-century construction, emerged out of interactions between two conceptions of activity. The first, introduced in the early 1860s, aimed to construct social classes based on the position of the household head, r...
| Published in: | Population (1634-2941) Vol. 77; no. 1; pp. 113 - 136 |
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Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques
2022
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