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The Ashgate companion to the history of textile workers, 1650-2000 /

This 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 before the Industrial Revolution through to the twentieth century. As well as of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Heerma van Voss, Lex, Hiemstra-Kuperus, Els, Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Colección:Ashgate companion.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Textile workers around the world,16502000: Introduction to a collective work project; PART I NATIONAL HISTORIES OF TEXTILES WORKERS; 2 Textile production in Argentina, 16502000; 3 Austria and Czechoslovakia: the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states; 4 Brazil: the origin of the textile industry; 5 China; 6 Denmark: the textile industry and the formation of modern industrial relations.
  • 7 Egyptian textile workers: from craft artisans facing European competition to proletarians contending with the state8 The German wool and cotton industry from the sixteenth to the twentieth century; 9 Great Britain: textile workers in the Lancashire cotton and Yorkshire wool industries; 10 The long globalization and textile producers in India; 11 The Italian textile industry, 16002000: labour, sectors and products; 12 Japan; 13 Mexican textile workers: from conquest to globalization; 14 The Netherlands; 15 Poland; 17 Spain; 18 T.