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

Title
The weaver's knot : the contradictions of class struggle and family solidarity in Western France, 1750-1914 / Tessie P. Liu.
Author
Liu, Tessie P., 1955-
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description
xi, 279 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Textile industry > Cholet > History
  • Rural industries > Cholet > History
  • Weavers > Cholet > History
  • Textile workers > Cholet > History
  • Cholet (France) > Rural conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 080142738X (alk. paper)
  • 0801480191 (alk. paper : pbk.)
LCCN
93043802
OCLC
ocm29517672
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries