Rural and Agrarian Areas in Europe

Most rural peasants in central, eastern and southern europe still lived under the same socio political regimes that traced their origins back to the misty, dark ages. Even those peasants who were free were still not very free. Most rural families took up home manufacturing as a way to make ends meet. But unfortunately, it was into this sphere of very necessary economic activity that even those regions supposedly untouched by the strial revolution was very much touched by the industrial revolution.