1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148773603321

Autore

Snicket Lemony <1970->

Titolo

Miserable Mill, The : Book the Fourth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

HarperCollins UK

ISBN

0-00-721757-9

Disciplina

813.6

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Could life for the Baudelaire orphans possibly get any worse? In a word, yes.Dear Customer,I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to listen to this CD because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put it down instantaneously, because of all the volumes describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, this might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumbermill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log.These include, I'm sorry to inform you, such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons.I have promised to record the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven't, so if your customers prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910735085703321

Autore

Hafter Daryl M

Titolo

European Women and Preindustrial Craft / / edited by Daryl M. Hafter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indiana University Press, 1995

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

9780253069061

0253069068

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations, map ;

Altri autori (Persone)

HafterDaryl M. <1935->

Soggetti

Textile industry - Europe - History

Women textile workers - Europe - History

Women - Employment - Europe - History

Dones - Treball - Europa

Textielindustrie

Vrouwenarbeid

Aufsatzsammlung

Textilindustrie

Arbeiterin

Women textile workers

Women - Employment

Industries

Mujeres - Trabajo - Europa

Industria textil - Europa

15.70 history of Europe

Travailleuses du textile - Europe - Histoire

Industries - Europe - History

History

Aufsatzsammlung

Westeuropa

Frankreich

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a theoretical framework for women's work in forming the Industrial Revolution / Daryl M. Hafter -- Women and the verdigris industry in Montpellier / Reed Benhamou -- Women flax scutchers in the linen production of Hälsingland, Sweden / Inger Jonsson -- On two-handed spinning / Walter Endrei and Rachel P. Maines -- Women who wove in the eighteenth-century silk industry of Lyon / Daryl M. Hafter -- The lacemakers of Le Puy in the nineteenth century / John F. Sweets -- Working women, gender, and industrialization in nineteenth-century France : the case of Lorraine embroidery manufacturing / Whitney Walton -- The calico painters of Estavayer : employers' strategies toward the market for women's labor / Pierre Caspard -- From home to factory : women in the nineteenth-century Italian silk industry / Patrizia Sione -- Survival strategies in a Saxon textile district during the early phases of industrialization, 1780-1860 / Jean H. Quataert -- The commercialization of trousseau work : female homeworkers in the French lingerie trade / Tessie P. Liu.

Sommario/riassunto

These essays examine key eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European industries-the production of verdigris, linen, and silk; spinning, weaving, lacemaking, embroidery; calico painting; and the lingerie trade. Focusing on links between women's preindustrial craft production and nineteenth-century heavy industrialization, this volume shows how women adopted new technology in certain situations and rejected it in others, helping maintain social peace during profound economic dislocation.