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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828407503321

Titolo

The Ashgate companion to the history of textile workers, 1650-2000 / / edited by Lex Heerma van Voss, Els Hiemstra-Kuperus, and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-04428-2

1-315-61268-2

1-317-04429-0

1-282-46276-8

9786612462764

1-84972-823-2

0-7546-9591-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (861 p.)

Collana

Ashgate companion

Altri autori (Persone)

Heerma van VossLex

Hiemstra-KuperusEls

Nederveen MeerkerkElise van

Disciplina

331.7/61677009

Soggetti

Clothing workers - History

Textile workers - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Textile workers around the world,1650-2000: Introduction to a collective work project; PART I NATIONAL HISTORIES OF TEXTILES WORKERS; 2 Textile production in Argentina, 1650-2000; 3 Austria and Czechoslovakia: the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states; 4 Brazil: the origin of the textile industry; 5 China; 6 Denmark: the textile industry and the formation of modern industrial relations

7 Egyptian textile workers: from craft artisans facing European competition to proletarians contending with the state8 The German wool and cotton industry from the sixteenth to the twentieth century; 9 Great Britain: textile workers in the Lancashire cotton and Yorkshire wool industries; 10 The long globalization and textile producers in



India; 11 The Italian textile industry, 1600-2000: labour, sectors and products; 12 Japan; 13 Mexican textile workers: from conquest to globalization; 14 The Netherlands; 15 Poland; 17 Spain; 18 The Ottoman Empire, 1650-1922; 19 Turkey, 1922-2003

20 The evolution of the Uruguayan textile industry21 USA: shifting landscapes of class, culture, gender, race and protest in the American Northeast and South; PART II INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS; 22 Global trade and textile workers; 23 Proto-industrialization and industrialization and 'modernity' in a global perspective; 24 The textile firm and the management of labour; 25 Spatial division of labour, global interrelations and imbalances in regional development; 26 How will we get our workers? Ethnicity and migration of global textile workers

27 Work floors under tension: working conditions and international competition in textiles28 Gender and the global textile industry; 29 Investigating identities within the global textile workforce; 30 Institutions in textile production: guilds and trade unions; 31 Covering the world: some conclusions to the project; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This 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 before the Industrial Revolution through to the twentieth century. As well as offering a unique reference source for anyone interested in the history of a particular country's textile industry, this project provides a unique resource for international comparison. By providing standardised global studies of key textile industries and workers, both geographically and thematically



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143082403321

Titolo

Clinical medicine Trauma and intensive medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, N.Z. : , : Libertas Academica, , 2008-2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

617.1005

Soggetti

Traumatology

Critical care medicine

Traumatologie

Soins intensifs

Serial publications.

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

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