Format:
1 online resource (861 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780754664284
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9780754695912
Content:
This collection offers the first systematic global and comparative history of textile workers over the course of 350 years. This period covers the major changes in wool and cotton production, and the global picture from before the Industrial Revolution through to the twentieth century. As well as offering a unique reference source for anyone interested in the history of a particular country's textile industry, this project provides a unique resource for international comparison. By providing standardised global studies of key textile industries and workers, both geographically and thematically, this book provides a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of a major element of the world's economy, allowing historians to challenge many of the received ideas about globalization. As such this collection will be welcomed by all scholars engaged in the history of the textile industry and international trade
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Textile workers around the world,1650-2000: Introduction to a collective work project -- PART I NATIONAL HISTORIES OF TEXTILES WORKERS -- 2 Textile production in Argentina, 1650-2000 -- 3 Austria and Czechoslovakia: the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states -- 4 Brazil: the origin of the textile industry -- 5 China -- 6 Denmark: the textile industry and the formation of modern industrial relations -- 7 Egyptian textile workers: from craft artisans facing European competition to proletarians contending with the state -- 8 The German wool and cotton industry from the sixteenth to the twentieth century -- 9 Great Britain: textile workers in the Lancashire cotton and Yorkshire wool industries -- 10 The long globalization and textile producers in India -- 11 The Italian textile industry, 1600-2000: labour, sectors and products -- 12 Japan -- 13 Mexican textile workers: from conquest to globalization -- 14 The Netherlands -- 15 Poland -- 17 Spain -- 18 The Ottoman Empire, 1650-1922 -- 19 Turkey, 1922-2003 -- 20 The evolution of the Uruguayan textile industry -- 21 USA: shifting landscapes of class, culture, gender, race and protest in the American Northeast and South -- PART II INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS -- 22 Global trade and textile workers -- 23 Proto-industrialization and industrialization and 'modernity' in a global perspective -- 24 The textile firm and the management of labour -- 25 Spatial division of labour, global interrelations and imbalances in regional development -- 26 How will we get our workers? Ethnicity and migration of global textile workers -- 27 Work floors under tension: working conditions and international competition in textiles -- 28 Gender and the global textile industry
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29 Investigating identities within the global textile workforce -- 30 Institutions in textile production: guilds and trade unions -- 31 Covering the world: some conclusions to the project -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Hiemstra-Kuperus, Els The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000 Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9780754664284
Language:
English
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