Author

Publication

2005 - Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780739109472
  • Open LibraryOL3300690M

Classifications

  • DDC338.4/76771164/0941509033
  • LCCHD9930.I732 G73 2005
  • LCCHD9930.I732G73 2005

Description

"Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development shows how variations in the gender division of labor - within and between households - led to different patterns of local and regional development during protoindustrialization, and to the transition to industrial capitalism, using the Irish linen industry as a substantive case study. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from census records to folk poetry, Jane Gray develops a dynamic model of gender that links the allocation of labor within households to macro-socioeconomic change. Expanding on recent literature of the salience on gender in the Irish political economy, Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development is important reading for social and economic historians as well as those interested in the role of gender in economic development and Irish history."--Jacket.

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HistoryLinen industryRural industriesIreland, historyIndustrializationEconomic conditionsSexual division of labor

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