Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development
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- ISBN 9780739109472
- Weight: 404g
- Dimensions: 172 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jun 2005
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Using the history of the Irish linen industry as a substantive case study Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development shows how gendered variations in the division of labor within and between households affected the economic development of the local and regional textile industry beginning with industrialization through to the transition to industrial capitalism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from census records to folk poetry, Jane Gray develops a dynamic model of gender that links the allocation of labor within households to macro-socioeconomic change. Expanding on recent literature of the salience of gender in the Irish political economy, Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development is important reading for social and economic historians as well as those interested in the role of gender in economic development and Irish history.
Jane Gray is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Research Associate at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis.
