Synopses & Reviews
This book explores the nature of manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution, focusing on one English region - the Kentish Weald.
Synopsis
Industry in the Countryside explores the nature of manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution. It is a wide ranging study of the Kentish Weald - a region where woollen textiles were produced by outworkers in their own cottages, on behalf of capitalist entrepreneurs. Zell asks the question, is there anything in the 'proto- industrialisation' model?
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Landholding, inheritance and the local land market; 3. Demographic movements, household structure and geographical mobility; 4. The Wealden agrarian regime; 5. Occupational structure and levels of wealth in the Weald; 6. The textile industry in the Weald; 7. Clothiers and capitalism; 8. The Weald and 'proto-industrialisation'.