The household, the labour market or the commodity market? Enabling the division of labour within proto-industries: the case of the Flemish linen industry during a period of decline (first half of nineteenth century)
One of the key assumptions in the original model of proto-industries, formulated by Mendels, Kriedte, Medick and Schlumbohm, is that the size and composition of families were determined by the proto-industrial work process in which those families were involved. The family was considered to be the basic unit of production, and the larger this unit, i.e. the more children a family had, the better. Among other reasons, with more children, a certain division of labour could be established within the family. However, later studies showed that there were many alternatives to the family as the unit o... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | conference |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Schlagwörter: | History and Archaeology / Periodic markets / Proto-industry / Households / Catchment areas / Division of labour |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26705162 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6851404 |