The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650–2000This impressive 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 pre-industrial times through to the twentieth century. After an introduction, the first part of the book is divided into twenty national studies on textile production over the period 1650-2000. To make them useful tools for international comparisons, each national overview is based on a consistent framework that defines the topics and issues to be treated in each chapter. The countries described have been selected to included the major historic producers of woollen and cotton fabrics, and the diversity of global experience, and include not only European nations, but also Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Uruguay and the USA. The second part of the book consists of ten comparative papers on topics including globalization and trade, organization of production, space, identity, workplace, institutions, production relations, gender, ethnicity and the textile firm. These are based on the national overviews and additional literature, and will help apply current interdisciplinary and cultural concerns to a subject traditionally viewed largely through a social and economic history lens. Whilst offering a unique reference source for anyone interested in the history of a particular country's textile industry, the true strength of this project lies in its capacity of international comparison. By providing global comparative 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. This allows historians to challenge many of the received ideas about globalization, for instance, highlighting how global competition for lower production costs is by no means a uniquely modern issue, and has b |
Contents
the origin of the textile industry | |
China | |
the textile industry and the formation of modern industrial | |
from craft artisans facing European | |
The cotton textile industry in Russia and the Soviet Union | |
Spain | |
The Ottoman Empire 16501922 | |
Turkey 19222003 | |
The evolution of the Uruguayan textile industry | |
shifting landscapes of class culture gender race and protest | |
Global trade and textile workers | |
Protoindustrialization and industrialization and modernity in | |
The German wool and cotton industry from the sixteenth to | |
textile workers in the Lancashire cotton and Yorkshire | |
The long globalization and textile producers in India | |
Giovanni Luigi Fontana Walter Panciera and Giorgio Riello | |
Japan | |
from conquest to globalization | |
The Netherlands | |
Poland | |
The textile firm and the management of labour | |
Spatial division of labour global interrelations and imbalances | |
How will we get our workers? Ethnicity and migration of global textile | |
competition in textiles | |
Investigating identities within the global textile workforce | |
guilds and trade unions | |
some conclusions to the project | |
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