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1998
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Family, professional and residential status of young urban people during the July Monarchy (1830-1848): study from nominal rolls of a 1837 census
The concept of transition to adult status has been shown as vague or reversible in recent surveys. Furthermore, increasing difficulties on the labour market would imply a later instance of such a transition in our societies.
The frequent reference to the past used in debates on society issues should be further specified and confronted to accurate data. The purpose of this paper is to analyse family, professional and residential status for young people living in the city of Versailles during the July Monarchy (1830-1848), by using marriage registers, local press and nominal rolls from the 1837 census, which allowed us to observe a sample of 854 15- 30 young people. This kind of survey could not be carried out in Paris where equivalent sources have disappeared. At that time, young people either : lived in the parental home, or were head of a household, or were taken in by a family, or were living in a furnished room, or were housed by their employer. The great importance of the last category, particularly among girls (20-30 %), the low marriage frequency, as well as its postponement, were all factors which revealed young people difficulties to emancipate. Such arrangements, which lend to a longer latency period, could be seen as family tricks, as lesser harm anyway in comparison with the young people condition in rural areas or in factories.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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01 janvier 1998
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Français
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