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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village

The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village

Gullickson, Gay L.
Gay L., Gullickson

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Business GeneralGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0521522498
ISBN13: 9780521522496
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 8 2002
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The cottage industry of France enjoyed enormous growth from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Through an intensive analysis of the social and economic impact of the expansion of this female-dominated industry, Gay Gullickson broadens our understanding of the variety and complexity of proto-industrial regions and of the proto-industrial processes. Focusing on the village of Auffay, located in the pays de Caux, a thriving agricultural region, Gullickson recreates the experiences of the women and men who spun and wove for the urban putting-out merchants. Social analysis of local memoirs, government reports, notarial and judicial records, and village cahiers de doléances, enables Gullickson to offer a more nuanced and accurate view of the causes and consequences of the expansion of the cottage textile industry in the pre-factory era. Her 1987 study is further enhanced by a quantitative analysis based primarily on the reconstitution of the families of the 727 couples who married in Auffay between 1750 and 1850.

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