1. Introduction -- 2. Rural Industries and the Evolution of Capitalist Production -- 3. The Putting-Out Wilderness: The Vulnerability of Merchants in the Marketplace -- 4. Winning Control over Entrepreneurship: Merchants and the New Cotton Regime -- 5. Cooperation and Collectivity: Weavers Mobilize to Retake Control -- 6. Handloom Weavers in the Age of Powerlooms: The Failures of Mobilization -- 7. New Domestic Industries: The Sweated Trades -- 8. The Agricultural Labor Market -- 9. What Price Dignity? The Transformation of the Weaving Family Economy and the Creation of Cheap Labor -- 10. Conclusions
Analysis
Cholet (France) Rural conditions
Geschichte 1750-1914
Rural industries France Cholet History
Textile industry France Cholet History
Textile workers France Cholet History
Weavers France Cholet History
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index