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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 October 2009
      24 March 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511522895
      9780521445412
      9780521893060
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522895
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.537kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (22)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (22)
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    Industry in the Countryside is a wide-ranging and readable study of the nature of manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution. It examines the widely-debated theory of 'proto-industrialisation', drawing on data from the Kentish Weald - an area which was already a centre of cottage industry in the Tudor era and was also the earliest rural manufacturing region to 'de-industrialise'. The book analyses the Wealden textile industry from its workforce to its industrialists and emphasises the ubiquity of dual employment among textile workers. It explores the local context of cottage industry, investigating the pattern of landholding and inheritance, the local farming regime, and the demographic background to rural industrialisation. Zell outlines what type of local economy became the site of this so-called 'proto-industry' and shows the impact of cottage industry on the people of such regions. He concludes by asking, is there anything in the 'proto-industrialisation' model?

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