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As human beings, we have an innate disposition to care about our well-being. We all care about staying alive, as well as about avoiding disease, physical pain, bodily harm, disability and assaults on our dignity. Adequate nourishment, water, shelter, security, satisfying work, autonomy, relationships with others and self-esteem are essential to human life and functioning. This illuminating study... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, INTRODUCTION, I, II, III, IV, IN THEIR PROPER PLACE:THE CIVIC HIERARCHY, I, Regents: The Ruling Elite, Common Citizens, Non-Citizen Residents and Temporary Inhabitants, -III, Strangers in the City, GRADIENTS OF WEALTH AND INCOME: THE ECONOMIC HIERARCHY, -I, The Wealthy Elite, The Middling Group, The Lower Orders and the Poor, -II, Responding to Economic Stress, -III, AT HOME IN AMSTERDAM:THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAND EARLY DEATH,-I, -II, The Residential Environment, Housing Conditions, -III, INTIMATE INFERIORS:SERVANTS IN AMSTERDAM, -I, -II, Servants at Work, -III, Vulnerability and Conflicts, Conflicts about Earnings and Work, Conflicts about Dress, Conflicts about Sex and Intimacy, -IV, Changing Employers, -V, Preparing for the Future, A SINGULAR UNMARRIED WOMEN, -I, The Years before Marriage, Earning a Living: Single Men and Single Women, -II, The Significance of Marital Status, -III, Courtship and Marriage, -IV, Never-Married Men and Women, -V, THE FAMILY HOUSEHOLD:HUSBAND, WIFE, AND CHILDREN, -I, Family Orientation, -II, Starting Married Life: Husband and Wife, -III, Having Children, Controlling Fertility, -IV, Vulnerabilities and Early Deaths, -V,1 PARENTS AND CHILDREN,BROTHERS AND SISTERS,1 -I, Mother-Child Relations, -II, Father-Child Relations,-III, Growing Up, -IV,1 Siblings, Birth Intervals: A Matter of Life and Death, Grieving for Lost Children, Continuing Sibling Relationships, Sibling Inequalities and Discontents, -V, LOSING A SPOUSE AND APARENT, -I, The Emotional Loss, -II, Widowhood and the Gender Hierarchy, -III, The Widows of Regents and Other Wealthy Men, The Widows of Functionaries and Professionals, The Widows of Master Craftsmen, The Widows of Non-Citizen Residents and Temporary Inhabitants, -IV, Remarriage, -V, LOSING BOTH PARENTS:AMSTERDAM ORPHANS, -I, Being Orphaned, Emotional Loss and the Grieving Child, -II, Economic and Social Support, The Children of the Wealthy Elite, The Children of Other Amsterdam Citizens, Children of Non-Citizen Residents and Temporary Inhabitants,-III, The Orphanage Experience, A SUMMING UP, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, THE AUTHOR , INDEX.
Biography
Derek Phillips was emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
