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The weaver's knot : the contradictions of class struggle and family solidarity in western France, 1750-1914

Author: Tessie P Liu
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tessie P Liu
ISBN: 080142738X 9780801427381 0801480191 9780801480195
OCLC Number: 29517672
Description: xi, 279 p. : 1 map : 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Tessie P. Liu.

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