The Warp of Ulster's Past: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Irish Linen Industry, 1700-1920

ISBN-13: 9780312129071 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 282 str.

Marilyn Cohen

Opis

This collection of essays explores the relationships between the linen industry and capitalist development, economic class, social life, and religious and gender stratification.

Spis treści

Preface - Introduction; M.Cohen - PART 1: LINEN AND THE FABRIC OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IRELAND, 1690-1830 - The Irish and Scottish Linen Industries in the 18th Century; J.Gray - The Irish Linen Board, 1711-1828; H.Gribbon - Contested Terrain: The Making of a Market Culture in Ulster Linens; A.McKernan - Ideology and Materialism: Politicization and Ulster Weavers in the 1790's; N.Curtain - Linen and the Irish Northwest: Unfinished Business, or the Experience of the 1830's; J.Vincent - PART 2: AN EMERGING CAPITALIST LINEN INDUSTRY, 1825-1920 -Irish Linen: A Peripheral Industry; D.O'Hearn - Problems of the European Linen Industry, 1870-1914; P.Ollerenshaw - Vertical Integration and De-integration in Spinning and Weaving, 1830-1913; E.Boyle - The Loom, the Land and the Marketplace: Women Weavers and the Family Economy in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Ireland; B.Collins - Toward an Historical Anthropology of Work: Structure and Subjectivity Among Linen Workers in Tullylish, 1900-1920; M.Collins - List of Tables and Figures - Index