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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: ‘Rendered much cheaper\, than our work-people can mak
 e’\; Women’s employment in textile manufacturing and English political
  economy\, 1688-1722 - Hugo Bromley (Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Martin Andersson
DESCRIPTION:How did the English and later British state understand women
 ’s work in textile manufacturing at the start of the long eighteenth cen
 tury? A close study of petitions\, pamphlets\, private correspondence and 
 parliamentary journals suggests that English political economy was based o
 n a much more complex economic understanding\, particularly of women’s w
 ork\, than has often been assumed\, that attempted to sustain household in
 comes\, regardless of who in the household was employed. Women played an a
 ctive role in shaping the economic knowledge that formed the basis of stat
 e decision-making. At the same time\, female consumers were attacked for b
 uying ‘luxury’ textiles from overseas and undermining domestic employm
 ent. The need for manufacturing to provide employment to households that w
 ould otherwise be dependent on poor relief drove measures to restrict Iris
 h woollen production\, ban the export of raw wool\, and restrict trade wit
 h India. Recognising the importance of household employment in British eco
 nomic thinking helps explain the dominant position of textile manufacturin
 g in shaping British political economy before the Industrial Revolution.
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 12
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