Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development: Gender and Industrialization in Ireland During the Long Eighteenth Century - Hardcover

Gray, Jane

 
9780739109472: Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development: Gender and Industrialization in Ireland During the Long Eighteenth Century

Synopsis

Using the history of the Irish linen industry as a substantive case study Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development shows how gendered variations in the division of labor within and between households affected the economic development of the local and regional textile industry beginning with industrialization through to the transition to industrial capitalism. 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 of 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.

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About the Author

Jane Gray is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Research Associate at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis.

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