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.
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