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The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650–2000
* Imprint: Ashgate
* Illustrations: Includes 42 b&w illustrations
* Published: March 2010
* Format: 244 x 169 mm
* Extent: 860 pages
* Binding: Hardback
* ISBN: 978-0-7546-6428-4
* Price : £75.00 » Website price: £67.50
* BL Reference: 338.4'7677'009
* LoC Control No: 2009007558
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* Edited by Lex Heerma van Voss, Els Hiemstra-Kuperus and Elise
van Nederveen Meerkerk, International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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This 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 been a feature of textile production for much of the last 350
years. As such this collection will be welcomed by all scholars
engaged in the history of the textile industry and international trade.
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Contents: Textile workers around the world, 1650–2000:
introduction to a collective work project, Els Hiemstra-Kuperus, Lex
Heerma van Voss and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk; Part I National
Histories of Textile Workers: Textile production in Argentina, 1650–
2000, Mirta Zaida Lobato; Austria and Czechoslovakia: the Habsburg
monarchy and its successor states, Andrea Komlosy; Brazil: the origin
of the textile industry, Roberta Marx Delson; China, Robert Cliver;
Denmark: the textile industry and the formation of modern industrial
relations, Lars K. Christensen; Egyptian textile workers: from craft
artisans facing European competition to proletarians contending with
the state, Joel Beinin; The German wool and cotton industry from the
16th to the 20th century, Dietrich Ebeling, Marcel Boldorf, Stefan
Gorißen, Michael Mende, Anke Sczesny and Michaela Schmölz- Häberlein;
Great Britain: textile workers in the Lancashire cotton and Yorkshire
wool industries, Alan Fowler; The long globalization and textile
producers in India, Tirthankar Roy; The Italian textile industry,
1600–2000: labour, sectors and products, Giovanni Luigi Fontana,
Walter Panciera and Giorgio Riello; Japan, Janet Hunter and Helen
Macnaughtan; Mexican textile workers: from conquest to globalization,
Jeffrey Bortz; The Netherlands, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Lex
Heerma van Voss and Els Hiemstra-Kuperus; Poland, Piotr Franaszek;
The cotton textile industry in Russia and the Soviet Union, Dave
Pretty; Spain, Angel Smith, Carles Enrech, Carme Molinero and Pere
Ysàs; The Ottoman empire, 1650–1922, Donald Quataert; Turkey, 1922–
2003, Lisa A. Seidman; The evolution of the Uruguayan textile
industry, María Magdalena Camou and Silvana Maubrigades; USA:
shifting landscapes of class, culture, gender, race, and protest in
the American Northeast and South, Mary H. Blewett. Part II
International Comparisons: Global trade and textile workers,
Prasannan Parthasarathi; Proto-industrialization and
industrialization and 'modernity' in a global perspective, Donald
Quataert; The textile firm and the management of labour, Arthur
McIvor; Spatial division of labour, global interrelations, and
imbalances in regional development, Andrea Komlosy; How will we get
our workers? Ethnicity and migration of global textile workers,
Roberta Marx Delson; Work floors under tension: working conditions
and international competition in textiles, Peter Scholliers; Gender
and the global textile industry, Janet Hunter and Helen Macnaughtan;
Investigating identities within the global textile workforce, Mary H.
Blewett; Institutions in textile production: guilds and trade unions,
Lars K. Christensen; Covering the world: some conclusions to the
project, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Lex Heerma van Voss and Els
Hiemstra-Kuperus; Index.
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About the Editor: Lex Heerma van Voss is a research fellow at
the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and holds
a chair in the history of labour and labour relations at Utrecht
University. He has published on the comparative history of
dockworkers and on the history of the North Sea.
Els Hiemstra-Kuperus is responsible for the organization of
the bi-annual European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) at
the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. She has
also contributed to a publication on the image collection of the
International Institute of Social History.
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk wrote her PhD thesis on female
textile workers in the early modern Netherlands at the International
Institute of Social History. Since then, she has carried out several
postdoc projects at Leiden University and the International Institute
of Social History. She has published, among other things, on women's
and child labour, urban history and business history.
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This title is also available as an eBook, ISBN 978-0-7546-9591-2
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