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The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village

By Gay L. Gullickson

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0521522498, 9780511528859, 9780521322805, 9780521522496
Open Library ID
OL7744232M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6806661 bytes)
Pages
268\266
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The cottage industry of France enjoyed enormous growth from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Through an intensive analysis of the social and economic impact of the expansion of this female-dominated industry, Gay Gullickson broadens our understanding of the variety and complexity of proto-industrial regions and of the proto-industrial processes. Focusing on the village of Auffay, located in the pays de Caux, a thriving agricultural region, Gullickson recreates the experiences of the women and men who spun and wove for the urban putting-out merchants. Social analysis of local memoirs, government reports, notarial and judicial records, and village cahiers de dol?ances, enables Gullickson to offer a more nuanced and accurate view of the causes and consequences of the expansion of the cottage textile industry in the pre-factory era. Her study is further enhanced by a quantitative analysis based primarily on the reconstitution of the families of the 727 couples who married in Auffay between 1750 and 1850.

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