A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000

Comparative papers

These are preliminary versions of comparative papers on different themes prepared for the conference 'A Global History of Textile Workers, 1600-2000' held at the IISH in November 2004.
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Ethnicity and migration

Roberta Marx Delson, How Will We Get Our Workers? A Comparative Discussion of Ethnicity and Migration of Global Textile Workers (115 Kb, word document)

Gender

Janet Hunter and Helen Macnaughtan, Gender and the Global Textile Industry, 1650-2000 (92 Kb, word document)

Globalization and trade

Prasannan Parthasarathi, Global trade and textile workers, 1650-2000 (79 Kb, word document)

Identity

Mary H. Blewett, Comparing Identities Within the Global Textile Workforce, 1650-2000 (2nd version, 92 Kb, word document)

Organisation of production

Donald Quataert, Comparative Paper on: proto-industrialization and industrialization; technological development and industrialization; development of organization of production; links with family economy and relationship of countryside and towns (88 Kb, word document)

Production Relations

Lisa Seidman, Textile Production Themes: 1600 - 2000 (101 Kb, word document)

Space

Andrea Komlosy, Spatial division of labour, global inter-relations, and imbalances in regional development (355 Kb, word document)
Graph 'The "contemporaneity of the non-contemporary" by periods' (83 Kb, gif file)

Textile firm

Arthur McIvor, The textile firm and the management of labour: comparative perspectives on the global textile industry since c. 1700 (87 Kb, word document)

Trade unions and other institutions

Lars K. Christensen, Institutions in textile industry - guilds, unions and states (126 Kb, word document)

Work Floor

Peter Scholliers, The Work Floor (Labour Markets, Social Relations, Work Environment, and Wages) (98 Kb, word document)