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Industry in the Countryside is a wide-ranging and readable study of the nature of manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution. It examines the widely-debated theory of 'proto-industrialisation', drawing on data from the Kentish Weald - an area which was already a centre of cottage industry in the Tudor era and was also the earliest rural manufacturing region to 'de-industrialise'. The book analyses the Wealden textile industry from its workforce to its industrialists and emphasises the ubiquity of dual employment among textile workers. It explores the local context of cottage industry, investigating the pattern of landholding and inheritance, the local farming regime, and the demographic background to rural industrialisation. Zell outlines what type of local economy became the site of this so-called 'proto-industry' and shows the impact of cottage industry on the people of such regions. He concludes by asking, is there anything in the 'proto-industrialisation' model?

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Economic history

• Full title: Industry in the Countryside
• Subtitle: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century
• Author: Michael Zell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• EAN: 9780521893060
• ISBN: 0521893062
• ID: 02049485
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 416 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 227 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. February 2004

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