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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 October 2009
      28 November 1986
      ISBN:
      9780511528859
      9780521322805
      9780521522496
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528859
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.439kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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    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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    "...an intelligently and carefully executed study...stands out as one where the role of women is carefully treated and imaginatively evoked." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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