TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender, labor, and globalization in historical perspective
T2 - European spinsters in the international textile industry, 1750-1900
AU - Maynes, Mary Jo
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Current debates about globalization often treat it as a late-twentieth-century phenomenon. But many of the characteristics of the contemporary global economy are continuations of older trends: accelerating substitution of globally marketed products for local products, the rapid growth of the labor force producing goods and services for the international market, and the complex mediation of local and regional economic conditions within global power relations. One of the most significant aspects of globalization from a feminist point of view is its disruption of local gender divisions of labor and its impact on women's wage labor. The history of Europe's spinning industry as it moved from cottage to factory between 1750 and 1900 puts a new spin (so to speak) on accounts of globalization and gender. Europe's early industrial capitalist development brought regions of Europe into and out of production for globalizing markets through selective investment and disinvestments. Then, as now, women's work, and in particular the work of young women, played a key role in the region's "economic development."
AB - Current debates about globalization often treat it as a late-twentieth-century phenomenon. But many of the characteristics of the contemporary global economy are continuations of older trends: accelerating substitution of globally marketed products for local products, the rapid growth of the labor force producing goods and services for the international market, and the complex mediation of local and regional economic conditions within global power relations. One of the most significant aspects of globalization from a feminist point of view is its disruption of local gender divisions of labor and its impact on women's wage labor. The history of Europe's spinning industry as it moved from cottage to factory between 1750 and 1900 puts a new spin (so to speak) on accounts of globalization and gender. Europe's early industrial capitalist development brought regions of Europe into and out of production for globalizing markets through selective investment and disinvestments. Then, as now, women's work, and in particular the work of young women, played a key role in the region's "economic development."
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U2 - 10.1353/jowh.2004.0016
DO - 10.1353/jowh.2004.0016
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33645074180
SN - 1042-7961
VL - 15
SP - 47-66+232
JO - Journal of women's history
JF - Journal of women's history
IS - 4
ER -