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The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000
This impressive collection offers the first systematic global and comparative history of textile workers over the course of 350 years. This period covers the major changes in wool and cotton production, and the global picture from pre-industrial times through to the twentieth century. After an introduction, the first part of the book is divided into twenty national studies on textile production over the period 1650-2000. To make them useful tools for international comparisons, each national overview is based on a consistent framework that defines the topics and issues to be treated in each chapter. The countries described have been selected to included the major historic producers of woollen and cotton fabrics, and the diversity of global experience, and include not only European nations, but also Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Uruguay and the USA. The second part of the book consists of ten comparative papers on topics including globalization and trade, organization of production, space, identity, workplace, institutions, production relations, gender, ethnicity and the textile firm. These are based on the national overviews and additional literature, and will help apply current interdisciplinary and cultural concerns to a subject traditionally viewed largely through a social and economic history lens. Whilst offering a unique reference source for anyone interested in the history of a particular country's textile industry, the true strength of this project lies in its capacity of international comparison. By providing global comparative studies of key textile industries and workers, both geographically and thematically, this book provides a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of a major element of the world's economy. This allows historians to challenge many of the received ideas about globalization, for instance, highlighting how global competition for lower production costs is by no means a uniquely modern issue, and has b
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Anger at walkway 'Dr No'
Fergus Ewing, the SNP's tourism spokesman and the MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, said: \"I have tried unsuccessfully to see if Dr [Heerma Van Voss] has carried out a risk assessment, and if not, why not. Other local landowners have co- operated with the community - why has he not? His land is disease- free - disinfection points can be used as they are by his neighbours. Unless he wants to become known as 'Dr No' he should follow the lead given by all other landowners.\" A Scottish executive source confirmed the push to reopen the route had been delayed by Dr Van Voss, who lets out his land to a nearby farmer, who uses it to graze sheep.
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Selling sex in the city: a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s
891p index (Studies in global social history, 31) ISBN 9789004346246 cloth, $190.00; ISBN 9789004346253 ebook, $190.00 This global study of prostitution across four centuries, from the 1600s until the 2000s, employs a labor perspective on urban sex work. [...]the conclusion discusses in broad strokes the ways urbanization, industrialization, migration, colonization, and globalization shaped prostitution.
Book Review
The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers 1650-2000
Duckett reviews The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers 1650-2000 edited by Lex Heerma van Voss, Els Hiemestra-Kuperus and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.
Book Review
The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650–2000
I will leave it to area specialists to comment upon the specifics of the 20 nationstate/ empire chapters. As a sociologist, what I found surprising was the lack of a core set of theoretical concepts and frameworks. Perhaps, as the editors make explicitly clear, the principle of avoiding teleology may also have meant avoiding any theoretical debates about the capitalist world system, the development of underdevelopment, uneven development, accumulation by dispossession, unequal exchange, global commodity chains, regulation theory, mixed modes of production, spatial structure of accumulation, and/or current debates about globalization. Likewise, my review of the index did not find any listing for capitalism, accumulation, rationalization, bureaucratization, or alienation - concepts core to the sociological analysis of industrialization. Fair enough, although many of the core concepts from these macro-theory debates are implicit in both the nation-specific and global-comparative chapters. I would argue that macro-theory is not necessarily teleological, but this is not the time or the place for debates on the philosophy of science.
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The Ashgate companion to the history of textile workers, 1650-2000
Business, Management & Labor 48-1564 HD8039 2009-7558 CIP The Ashgate companion to the history of textile workers, 16502000, ed. by Lex Heerma van Voss, EIs Hiemstra-Kuperus, and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk. Ashgate, 2010. 836p bibl index afp ISBN 9780754664284, $175.00
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Class and Other Identities: Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History
Crowston reviews Class and Other Identities: Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History by Marcel van der Linden and Lex Heerma van Voss.
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