Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Essays examine key 18th- and 19th-century industries, including spinning, weaving, calico painting, and the lingerie trade. Focusing on links between women's preindustrial craft production and heavy industrialization, this volume shows how women adopted or rejected new technology in various situations, helping maintain social peace during profound economic dislocation.
Table of Contents
Introduction : a theoretical framework for women's work in forming the Industrial Revolution / Daryl M. Hafter -- Women and the verdigris industry in Montpellier / Reed Benhamou -- Women flax scutchers in the linen production of Hèalsingland, Sweden / Inger Jonsson -- On two-handed spinning / Walter Endrei and Rachel P. Maines -- Women who wove in the eighteenth-century silk industry of Lyon / Daryl M. Hafter -- The lacemakers of Le Puy in the nineteenth century / John F. Sweets -- Working women, gender, and industrialization in nineteenth-century France : the case of Lorraine embroidery manufacturing / Whitney Walton -- The calico painters of Estavayer : employers' strategies toward the market for women's labor / Pierre Caspard -- From home to factory : women in the nineteenth-century Italian silk industry / Patrizia Sione -- Survival strategies in a Saxon textile district during the early phases of industrialization, 1780-1860 / Jean H. Quataert -- The commercialization of trousseau work : female homeworkers in the French lingerie trade / Tessie P. Liu.