Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The historical study of the life course / Tamara K. Hareven
  • Family history and the life course / Glen H. Elder, Jr.
  • Changing configurations of the life course / Peter Uhlenberg
  • The setting : the Essex County context / John Modell and Howard P. Chudacoff
  • Marriage and family formation / Bengt Ankarloo
  • From fireside to factory : school entry and school leaving in nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Carl F. Kaestle, Maris A. Vinovskis
  • Women's work and the life course in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1880 / Karen Oppenheim Mason, Maris A. Vinovskis, Tamara K. Hareven
  • Family transitions into old age / Howard Chudacoff, Tamara K. Hareven
  • Transitions : patterns of timing / John Modell, Tamara K. Hareven
  • Economic perspectives on the life course / Stanley Engerman
  • Comparative notes on the life course / Robert A. Levine.