Rising Needs and Falling Family Size: Implications from Marx on Demographic Transition

Tilak Abeysinghe ()

Review of Social Economy, 1986, vol. 44, issue 3, pages 281-93

Abstract: Marx's views of population growth and wage l abor provides a useful framework to investigate the fertility decline experience d by the industrial world in an era of rising per capita incomes. It is argued here that the persistent increase in "social needs" (including skillneeds) has compelled families to reduce their size by reducing the number of surviving chi ldren borne. This is viewed as a survival strategy adopted by individual familie s in place of direct and organized struggle for higher wages. Copyright 1986 by Taylor and Francis Group

Date: 1986

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