pre-industrial society
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society
noun
uk/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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In this perspective industrial child labour seems to appear as an example of exploitation of children handed down by thepre-industrialsociety.
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Intergenerational land transmission was a crucial part of the process of social reproduction inpre-industrialsociety.
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Nardinelli is right in pointing out that the system of parish apprenticeship involved exploitation of children, but the question remains whether this was entirely the fault ofpre-industrialsociety.
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They were first noticed in 1814, which was mainly apre-industrialsociety.
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In some cases the erosion of our small firms sector has thrust us back into thepre-industrialsociety.
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I think it right that we remember that there was apre-industrialsociety.
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We must start not where we should like to be, in the utopia of apre-industrialsociety, but from where we are now.
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For the good of society and for the good of individuals we need to recover some of the values ofpre-industrialsociety.
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Thispre-industrialsocietywith its large-scale emigration had a profound impact on him.
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The levels found today in most people are orders of magnitude greater than those ofpre-industrialsociety.
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The hypothesized need of pre-industrial societies for continued high fertility is therefore decreasing in the two study societies at the present time.
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This seems to be a highly relevant principle, but in fact is returning to the situation that characterized many pre-industrial societies.
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Usually, servants have been studied as part and parcel of the composition of households, often in pre-industrial societies.
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In pre-industrial societies urban waste had largely been recycled, with animal and human excrement employed as fertilizer in the surrounding countryside.
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To prevent close pregnancies completely though not always intentionally, man in pre-industrial societies abstained from intercourse for varying periods.
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His conclusion that the current categorisation of pre-industrial societies into hunter-gatherers and farmers is, effectively, a modern invention represents a continuation of his earlier investigations into this subject (1998; 2001).
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The epidemiologic and socioeconomic causes and consequences of crisis mortality in pre-industrial societies have been studied in the course of explaining the demographic transition framework in a historical perspective.
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While a land market is usually seen as associated with modern societies, a strong land-family bond quite often was (and is) believed to be characteristic of medieval and pre-industrial societies.
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Although population in pre-industrial societies is roughly distributed in terms of local agrarian potential, the emergence of higherorder settlements is not necessarily just an extension of the same principle.
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In pre-industrial societies, profits go into the pockets of one's cousins, who have a claim on one's success, whereas in industrial society individuals can accumulate capital.
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