Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: Demography, Economy, and Society in Rufiji District, C. 1870-1986

By Matthew Lockwood

Combining demography, history, and sociology, this book offers a new methodology for the study of African fertility and a new definition of the role of household demography in agrarian economies. It provides a useful perspective on the ways in which human reproduction both reflects upon and reacts with the reproduction trends of society and economy in coastal Tanzania. Part I asserts a political economy of changing fertility; Part II studies the implications of demographic patterns for people's work-loads and economic fortunes at the individual and household levels.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198287542
• ISBN13: 9780198287544
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"