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Author : Gay L. Gullickson
Release : 2002-08-08
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 496/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay by : Gay L. Gullickson
Download or read book The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay written by Gay L. Gullickson. This book was released on 2002-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1987 book broadens our understanding of the proto-industrial era and the history of women.
Author : Adrienne D. Hood
Release : 2011-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 240/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Weaver's Craft by : Adrienne D. Hood
Download or read book The Weaver's Craft written by Adrienne D. Hood. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloth was one of the most important commodities in the early modern world, and colonial North Americans had to develop creative strategies to acquire it. Although early European settlers came from societies in which hand textile production was central to the economy, local conditions in North America interacted with traditional craft structures to create new patterns of production and consumption. The Weaver's Craft examines the development of cloth manufacture in early Pennsylvania from its roots in seventeenth-century Europe to the beginning of industrialization. Adrienne D. Hood's focus on Pennsylvania and the long sweep of history yields a new understanding of the complexities of early American fabric production and the regional variations that led to distinct experiences of industrialization. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, combined with a quantitative approach, the author argues that in contrast to New England, rural Pennsylvania women spun the yarn that a small group of trained male artisans wove into cloth on a commercial basis throughout the eighteenth century. Their production was considerably augmented by consumers purchasing cheap cloth from Europe and Asia, making them active participants in a global marketplace. Hood's painstaking research and numerous illustrations of textile equipment, swatch books, and consumer goods will be of interest to both scholars and craftspeople.
Author : Leslie Page Moch
Release : 2009-09-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 973/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Moving Europeans, Second Edition by : Leslie Page Moch
Download or read book Moving Europeans, Second Edition written by Leslie Page Moch. This book was released on 2009-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "By far the best general book on its subject. . . . Moving Europeans will remain a standard reference for some time to come." –Charles Tilly "Moch has reconceived the social history of Europe." —David Levine Moving Europeans tells the story of the vast movements of people throughout Europe and examines the links between human mobility and the fundamental changes that transformed European life. This update of a classic text describes the Western European migration from the pre-industrial era to the year 2000. For this new edition, Leslie Page Moch reconsiders the 20th century in light of fundamental changes in labor, years of conflict, and the new migrations following the end of colonial empires, the fall of communism, and globalization. This new edition also features a greatly expanded and up-to-date bibliography.
Author : Joyce Burnette
Release : 2008-04-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 582/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain by : Joyce Burnette
Download or read book Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain written by Joyce Burnette. This book was released on 2008-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.
Author : Tessie P. Liu
Release : 1994
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 195/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Weaver's Knot by : Tessie P. Liu
Download or read book The Weaver's Knot written by Tessie P. Liu. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
