The weaver's knot: the contradictions of class struggle and family solidarity in western France, 1750-1914

Frontmatter Preface (page ix) 1 Introduction (page 1) 2 Rural Industries and the Evolution of Capitalist Production (page 22) 3 The Putting-Out Wilderness: The Vulnerability of Merchants in the Marketplace (page 45) 4 Winning Control over Entrepreneurship: Merchants and the New Cotton Regime (page 75) 5 Cooperation and Collectivity: Weavers Mobilize to Retake Control (page 97) 6 Handloom Weavers in the Age of Powerlooms: The Failures of Mobilization (page 128) 7 New Domestic Industries: The Sweated Trades (page 159) 8 The Agricultural Labor Market (page 190) 9 What Price Dignity? The Transformation of the Weaving Family Economy and the Creation of Cheap Labor (page 222) 10 Conclusions (page 250) Bibliography (page 257) Index (page 273) Tessie P. Liu. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [257]-272) And Index.