Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development

Gender and Industrialization in Ireland During the Long Eighteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Using the history of the Irish linen industry as a substantive case study Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development shows how gendered variations in the division of labor within and between households affected the economic development of the local and regional textile industry beginning with industrialization through to the transition to industrial capitalism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from census records to folk poetry, Jane Gray develops a dynamic model of gender that links the allocation of labor within households to macro-socioeconomic change. Expanding on recent literature of the salience of gender in the Irish political economy, Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development is important reading for social and economic historians as well as those interested in the role of gender in economic development and Irish history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-06-22
Mått:172 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739109472

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Jane Gray is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Research Associate at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis.

Recensioner i media

This is an important study by a historical sociologist of the role of gender in protoindustrial Ireland. Gray looks carefully at family structures and how they change, and how they determine and affect strategies for dealing with rapidly changing opportunities in a declining economy. In Ireland there was a striking gender-based division of labor between spinning (women's work) and weaving (men's work) but these boundaries came under pressure and were contested. In addition to the data on Irish households in the protoindustrial districts, she is able to draw on anthropological studies from other places and times to illuminate her argument.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Trade, Markets, ProductionChapter 3 DevelopmentChapter 4 Local ContextsChapter 5 The Household ArenaChapter 6 Paths to Industrial CapitalismChapter 7 ConclusionChapter 8 Appendix 1. The 1821 Cavan SampleChapter 9 Appendix 2. The Poets and the Poems