Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development(English, Hardcover, Gray Jane)

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Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development(English, Hardcover, Gray Jane) is written by Gray Jane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0739109472 (ISBN 10) and 9780739109472 (ISBN 13).

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.