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US Textile Production in Historical Perspective - A Case Study from Massachusetts (Hardcover)
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US Textile Production in Historical Perspective - A Case Study from Massachusetts (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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For the last three decades, social historians who studied early
America expanded older interpretations of colonial economy and
society to include family, social position and gender as legitimate
topical themes. During that same period, economic scholars have
used social historians' community and household studies to explore
rural self-sufficiency, the development of commercial agriculture
and the Atlantic sea trade. Despite the recent use if family
household economics to explore and explain colonial economy and
society, most have entirely neglected one of the most fundamental
early American industries: domestic textile production.
Colonial historians have previously used information about wool,
flax and hemp in broad based arguments about the productive side of
the colonial economy, yet few have considered textile production a
significant colonial economic activity. As a result,
textile-producing networks, construed as either economics or social
phenomenon, have largely gone unnoticed.
This study draws from a broad array of sources including the
probate inventories of Essex and Suffolk County, Massachusetts,
extant account books, trial transcripts, court records and material
culture. Combined with a working knowledge of cloth-making, those
records reveal that domestic textile production was a major form of
social organization, especially in early Massachusetts.
Textile-reproducing networks clearly served to draw households,
neighborhoods and regions together in particular ways. From the
processing of fibers to the finishing of cloth, intense cooperation
and an extensive system of corporate labor were key elements of
textile production. Simply put, no one gender or age
wasresponsible, rather a confluence of females and male as well as
young and old laborers were necessary to the ensure the success of
the industry.
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