Industry in the countryside
Wealden society in the sixteenth century
by Michael Zell
Industry in the countryside is a wide-ranging and readable study of manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution. It examines the widely debated theory of 'proto-industrialization', drawing on data from the Kentish Weald - an area which was already the centre of cottage industry in the Tudor era, and was also the earliest rural manufacturing region to 'de-industrialize'.
The book analyses the Wealden textile industry from its workforce to its industrialists, and emphasizes the ubiquity of dual employment among textile workers and the importance of landownership to the entrepreneurs who financed rural clothmaking. It explores the local context of cottage industry: the pattern of landholding and inheritance, the local farming regime, and the demographic background to rural industrialization. Zell outlines what type of local economy became the site of this so-called 'proto-industry' and shows the impact of cottage industry on the people of such regions.
He concludes by asking, is there anything in the 'proto-industrialization' model?
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Economic conditions, History, Industries, Social conditions, Weald, the (england), Industries, great britain, history, Great britain, economic conditions, Great britain, social conditions, Great britain, economic conditions, 16th century, Economic historyPlaces
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Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century
2011, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511883692 9780511883699
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Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511522894 9780511522895
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Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)
February 12, 2004, Cambridge University Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0521893062 9780521893060
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Industry in the countryside: Wealden society in the sixteenth century
1994, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521445418 9780521445412
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index.
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