scholarly journals Urbs in rure: race-grounds, grandstands and the commercialized consumption of urban leisure, 1750–1805

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Mike Huggins
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Horse Racing ◽  
Production Time ◽  
Urban Renaissance ◽  
Urban Workers ◽  
Consumer Revolution ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Leisure

Abstract This article brings together three aspects of early modern urban life: the later stages of the urban renaissance, the consumer revolution and horse racing. Those towns identified as having an effectively commercialized ‘race week’ between 1750 and 1805 challenge notions of any trickle-down effect from London. Successful organization and funding came largely from co-operation rather than division between the county aristocracy and gentry and the urban middling sort. Both groups attended, while race weeks were sufficiently popular for many rural and urban workers to sacrifice production time for the allure of their leisure experiences. Racecourse consumer space, with its booths, tents and stands, allowed spectators to enjoy either cross-class mixing or increased social differentiation, the latter most especially on the permanent stone grandstands, an innovation of the period.

Urban renaissance and consumer revolution in Nottingham, 1688–1750

Urban History ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Beckett ◽  
Catherine Smith
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Urban Renaissance ◽  
Consumer Revolution

This article looks at ways of relating together two concepts of early modern urban life: the urban renaissance and the consumer revolution. Nottingham passed through a process of urban renewal between c. 1688 and c. 1750, and it is argued that in the absence of any public funding this must have been privately pioneered by the town's ‘middling sort’. Using probate inventory material the members of this social group are identified, and their habits as consumers examined. We speculate that it was this consumer-conscious middling sort which promoted urban change.

Poor sleep quality associates with self‐reported psychiatric and cardiometabolic symptoms independently of sleep timing patterns in a large sample of rural and urban workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Gutiérrez Carvalho ◽  
Ana Maria Delgado Cunha ◽  
André Comiran Tonon ◽  
Fernanda dos Santos Pereira ◽  
Ursula Matte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Poor Sleep Quality ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Sleep Timing ◽  
Urban Workers ◽  
Rural And Urban

Household Forms and Living Standards in Preindustrial France: From Models to Realities

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
French Studies ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Urban Workers ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Life Course

The study raises the question of whether it is possible to verify Rowntree's and Chayanov's models of recurrent poverty and economic tensions during the life course of proletarian families, by using recent French studies on peasants and urban workers since the seventeenth century. Using evidence from preindustrial France about the poor, the study examines family size and the amplitude of social differentiation in the rural and urban context. The number of children living at home does not appear to have a negative influence on the standard of living. No correlation was found in Rheims between the appearance or nonappearance of families on the tax rolls and the vital evolution of the family life course. These findings indicate the absence of family-regulated poverty over time.

Black Music Traditions of Central Avenue

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Turner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Black Music ◽  
Black Musicians ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The City ◽  
Central Avenue

Because of the early development of an African American community on Central Avenue, the city of Tampa, Florida provides an excellent environment to document Black music traditions in the southeastern region of the United States. By the late nineteenth century, an urban Black working class had formed on Central Avenue. Black musicians were part of a distinct cultural community, including divergent lifestyles, which were organically linked to the rural and urban life experiences of Black people in the United States and the Caribbean.

scholarly journals Cost of Living Indexes for Rural Labourers in Pakistan

1974 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
M. Ghaffar Chaudhry ◽  
M. Anwar Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Real Income ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Urban Workers ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Price Indexes ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
The Cost

The purpose of this paper is to provide estimates of the changes in the cost of living for rural labourers during the period 1966/67 to 1973. It is well known that throughout this period, and particularly in the recent years, prices have been rising. The Central Statistical Office (CSO) publishes consumer price indices for urban workers, but no index for rural workers is available. Thus, it is not known whether inflation has affected rural and urban workers uniformly. If changes in the cost of living have been different, then separate price indexes must be used in estimating the real income levels of the two groups. As development policies in Pakistan are increasingly aimed at alleviating poverty in the rural sector, the need for a separate price index applicable to rural labourers becomes obvious.

scholarly journals Representación social de un movimiento estudiantil a través de dos visiones, el Estado y la comunidad: el caso de la formación de la Colonia Rubén Jaramillo en 1973

2011 ◽  
pp. 144-159
Author(s):  
Dr. Oscar Daniel Moreno Arizmendi
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Urban Workers ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

El análisis de los movimientos estudiantiles permitió, por mucho tiempo, entender la vida escolar de las universidades. Los primeros estudios que se llevaron a cabo dentro del sistema de educación superior fueron a través de la documentación de los movimientos estudiantiles que se gestaron en su interior. Sin embargo, en un momento determinado estos movimientos estudiantiles salieron de los pasillos universitarios y se insertaron en la sociedad. La finalidad fue concreta: lograr un cambio radical dentro del sistema político mexicano. Así pues, cualquier movimiento social era aprovechado por dichos grupos estudiantiles y fueron tomados como propios para aplicar su ideología del cambio desde abajo. Tal es el caso de un movimiento estudiantil que durante tres meses, que van de marzo a junio, se dedicaron a apoyar y a gestar la organización social de un grupo de paracaidistas que, con la esperanza de poseer un pedazo de tierra donde instalarse, retaron a todas las fuerzas del gobierno durante 1973: fue la experiencia de la formación de la Colonia Rubén Jaramillo en el municipio de Temixco en el estado de Morelos. Presentamos aquí el tipo de representaciones que hubo en dicho movimiento. Cómo fueron vistos los jóvenes estudiantes por parte de campesinos y trabajadores obreros y como aquéllos participaron, de manera libre y democrática, en la fundación de la misma.AbstractDuring a long period of time, the analysis of student movements allowed to understand the academic life of universities. The first studies that took place in the universities were focussed on documenting and reasoning the student movements that rose within. However, at a certain moment these student movements came out of the university and were inserted inside society. The purpose was concrete: to achieve a radical change in the Mexican political system. Thus, any social movement was used by the above mentioned student groups and was taken to implement its own ideology of change from the bottom up. Such it is the case of a student movement that for three months -from March to June- devoted themselves to support and to prepare the social organization of a group of “paratroopers” that, with hoping to possess a piece of land where to establish themselves, challenged all the forces of the government during 1973. It was the experience of the formation of the suburb Rubén Jaramillo in Temixco in the state of Morelos. This work exposes the type of representation that arose in the above mentioned movement how young students were seen by rural and urban workers and how the students took part freely and democratically in the foundation of this suburb. Recibido: 7 de septiembre de 2010 Aceptado: 11 de noviembre de 2010

scholarly journals Connection: an architecture of support

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung Ngai Nicholas Wong
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Economic Gain ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The World ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

“We need a base to set down our Being and realize our possibilities (potential). A here from which to discover the world and a there to which we can return to.” (Relph, Edward. Geographical Experiences, Dwelling, Place and Environment, p.27) In China, architecture is currently employed with a focus towards rapid urbanization in the midst of globalization carried out to satisfy abstract economic goals rather than improving livelihood. This thesis asserts that architecture can serve as a support for rural migrants to aid their transition to urban life. The dynamics of urbanization is embodied in the journey of rural migrant workers who travel to cities and struggle with the disparity between rural and urban living. The lack of availability of services for migrant workers hinders them from reaching their potential. Architecture can transcend its role as merely a device for economic gain and stimulate social change. Architecture can serve as catalyst to create this here and there.

scholarly journals FROM NATIVE TO OUTLANDER: EXPLORING INFORMAL COMMUNITY IN CHENGZHONGCUN OF CHINA

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Ni PENG ◽  
Jin BAEK
Keyword(s):  
Urban Life ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Chinese Migration ◽  
Collective Housing ◽  
The City ◽  
Destination City

In the existing research on Chinese migration, rural domestic Chinese migrants are often portrayed as a community of intruders with a detached culture who invade a host destination city. Usually, as a first step, they settle down in a so-called “Chengzhongcun” (literally a village encircled by the city boundaries, hereafter CZC), which is a kind of “urban village”, or an undeveloped part of a city that is overshadowed by the more developed areas. The present paper tries to give an image of the rural-to-urban migrants as a more vigorous mediator that forms their migration destination. The aims are the following: first, to achieve a detailed written analysis of an existing CZC community and its functioning as a mirror of the discriminating division between the rural and urban life in China. Secondly, by taking into account the experiences of migrant communities in their host cities, this paper seeks to highlight the migrants' emotional conflict and increasing loss of values that occurs in the migration process from the rural to the urban. Thirdly, the migrants' household survival strategies shall be explored. Finally, weaving these strands together, this paper presents a case study of a Tulou collective housing project in Guangzhou Province, China.

Regulating the Terminal Economy: Difference, disruption, and governance in a Papuan commercial hub

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 904-942 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACOB NERENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Regional Economy ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Urban Markets ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Commercial Networks ◽  
Commercial Expansion

AbstractWhat kinds of governance agendas emerge at frontiers of commercial expansion, where routine economic relations traverse differences of ethnicity and degrees of formality? In the Balim Valley in the highlands of Indonesia's easternmost Papua province, mobilities and trade intersect at adjoining peri-urban markets and minivan terminals. The ‘terminal economy’ at the edges of Wamena, the region's bustling hub, is a threshold between rural and urban life, where indigenous livelihoods are subordinated to Indonesia's expanding commercial networks. Here, a cosmopolitan population—including indigenous Papuan highlanders and newcomer merchants from distant Indonesian regions—gathers to buy and sell local horticultural produce and imported commodities, transit between modes of transportation, and engage in a variety of formal and informal economic activities. This article traces the emergence of a multifaceted commercial regulation agenda, in the wake of demands for the recognition of indigenous contributions to the regional economy. It considers recent indigenous-formulated regulation policies in the context of the region's commercial history, one that is marked by a colonial devaluation of indigenous economic life and, more recently, by uprisings, inter-ethnic tensions, and government attempts to control and contain informal vending. The article conceptualizes commercial regulation as a convergence between efforts to contain disruption and demands for the revaluation of marginalized economic practices. It argues that commercial regulation is especially salient in regions that have been relegated to an end-point position in national and global commodity distribution paths.

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