Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The pays and the village
- 3 Proto-industrial theory and the pays de Caux
- 4 The golden age of spinning
- 5 Crisis and change in the Caux
- 6 The golden age of cottage weaving
- 7 Marriage and family in proto-industrial Auffay
- 8 Widowhood, remarriage, and the sexual division of labor
- 9 Unwed mothers and their children
- 10 Conclusions: the causes and consequences of proto-industrialization
- Appendix Vital statistics for Auffay
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The pays and the village
- 3 Proto-industrial theory and the pays de Caux
- 4 The golden age of spinning
- 5 Crisis and change in the Caux
- 6 The golden age of cottage weaving
- 7 Marriage and family in proto-industrial Auffay
- 8 Widowhood, remarriage, and the sexual division of labor
- 9 Unwed mothers and their children
- 10 Conclusions: the causes and consequences of proto-industrialization
- Appendix Vital statistics for Auffay
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Spinners and Weavers of AuffayRural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village, pp. 251 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986