A01=Jutta Schwarzkopf
Author_Jutta Schwarzkopf
Automatic Loom
Category=NH
cotton
Cotton Factory Times
Cotton Weaving
Cotton Weaving Industry
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Family Wage
female
Female Cotton Workers
Female Weavers
gender roles in cotton mills
industrial labour history
labour process inequality
Labour Representation Committee
Lancashire Cotton
Lancashire Cotton Industry
Lancashire Cotton Weaving
Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry
Lancashire Loom
male
Male Weavers
Married Women
Miriam Glucksmann
Northrop Loom
Salford Women's Trades
social history research
suffrage movement Britain
weavers
Weaving Sheds
Weaving Workforce
Women Cotton Workers
women textile workers
Women Weavers
Women's Trade Union League
Women's Trades Union Review
working-class femininity
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815398783
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Lancashire cotton industry doubtless counts among the most thoroughly researched industries in Britain. Cotton processing has attracted attention both as the pioneer of industrialization and the harbinger of industrial decline, in many ways typifying the development of the British economy from unchallenged global leader to the demise of large sectors of its manufacturing industry. Yet among the spate of book and articles published about the industry, there is a conspicuous lacuna. Gender, though rarely addressed specifically, permeates the industry's historiography nonetheless. This study tackles head-on the notion of gender within the cotton industry during the period 1880-1914, not so much to trace its effects on the industry itself, but instead concentrating on the ways gender radicalized particularly the female workers in the Lancashire mills. In so doing, it promotes the view that it was women weavers' experience of the way in which gender inequality in the labour process clashed with varying degrees of inequality in the other spheres of their lives that caused many of them to organize for the franchise. Their experience of equality in the labour process both sensitized them to inequality elsewhere and empowered them to fight against it by showing it to be a product of society rather than nature. 'Drawing on the examples provided by disenfranchized working-class men and middle-class women alike, they accounted for inequality in terms of their exclusion from the polity. In the process of holding their own against male co-workers, supervisory staff, employers, labour activists, politicians, and even many middle-class women, they evolved their own version of working-class femininity, which differed in important ways from the female domesticity that had a vibrant existence in labour rhetoric, but rarely beyond.
