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Author Liu, Tessie P., 1955-

Title The weaver's knot : the contradictions of class struggle and family solidarity in western France, 1750-1914 / Tessie P. Liu
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : 1 map
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Rural Industries and the Evolution of Capitalist Production -- 3. The Putting-Out Wilderness: The Vulnerability of Merchants in the Marketplace -- 4. Winning Control over Entrepreneurship: Merchants and the New Cotton Regime -- 5. Cooperation and Collectivity: Weavers Mobilize to Retake Control -- 6. Handloom Weavers in the Age of Powerlooms: The Failures of Mobilization -- 7. New Domestic Industries: The Sweated Trades -- 8. The Agricultural Labor Market -- 9. What Price Dignity? The Transformation of the Weaving Family Economy and the Creation of Cheap Labor -- 10. Conclusions
Analysis Cholet (France) Rural conditions
Geschichte 1750-1914
Rural industries France Cholet History
Textile industry France Cholet History
Textile workers France Cholet History
Weavers France Cholet History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index
SUBJECT Freak Weber gnd
Subject Textile industry -- France -- Cholet -- History
Rural industries -- France -- Cholet -- History
Weavers -- France -- Cholet -- History
Textile workers -- France -- Cholet -- History
Rural conditions.
Rural industries.
Textile industry.
Textile workers.
Weavers.
Industrialisierung
Textilarbeiter
Weber
Textielindustrie.
Arbeiders.
Geschichte 1750-1914.
Sozialgeschichte 1750-1914.
SUBJECT Cholet (France) -- Rural conditions
Subject France -- Cholet.
Cholet -- Region
Frankreich -- West
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 080142738X
9780801427381
0801480191
9780801480195