Children of the Laboring Poor

Children of the Laboring Poor

Expectation and Experience Among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg

by Thomas Max Safley

493 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780391042247
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This volume provides fascinating new insights into the agency of the laboring poor in early modern Europe. Based on more than 5,000 biographical accounts of orphans in the city of Augsburg, it explores their responses to changing social and economic circumstances and their utilization of social institutions and mores.

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