European Women and Preindustrial Craft

Abstract

Introduction: A Theoretical Framework for WomenOs Work in Forming the Industrial Revolution, by Daryl M. Hafter Part One: Handicraft and Invention in the Eighteenth Century 1. Women and the Verdigris Industry in Montpellier, by Reed Benhamou 2. Women Flax Scutchers in the Linen Production of Helsingland, Sweden, by Inger Jonsson 3. On Two-ianded Spinning, by Walter Endrei and Rachel P. Maines 4. Women Who Wove in the Eighteenth-Century Silk Industry of Lyon, by Daryl M. Hafter Part Two: The Persistence of Handicraft in the Industrial Age 5. The Lacemakers of Le Puy in the Nineteenth Century, by John F. Sweets 6. Working Women, Gender, and Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of Larraine Emboidery Manufacturing, by Whitney Walton 7. The Calico Painters of Estavayer: EmployersO Strategies Toward the Market for WomenOs Labor, by Pierre Caspard 8. From Home to Factory: Women in the Nineteenth-Century Italian Silk Industry, by Patrizia Sione 9. Survival Strategies in a Saxon Textile District during the Early Phases of Industrialization, 1780ETH1860, by Jean H. Quataert 10. The Commercialization of the Trousseaux Work: Female Homeworkers in the French Lingerie Trade, by Tessie P. Liu Contributors Index