European women and preindustrial craft / [electronic resource] edited by Daryl M. Hafter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a theoretical framework for women's work in forming the Industrial Revolution / Daryl M. Hafter -- Women and the verdigris industry in Montpellier / Reed Benhamou -- Women flax scutchers in the linen production of Hälsingland, Sweden / Inger Jonsson -- On two-handed spinning / Walter Endrei and Rachel P. Maines -- Women who wove in the eighteenth-century silk industry of Lyon / Daryl M. Hafter -- The lacemakers of Le Puy in the nineteenth century / John F. Sweets -- Working women, gender, and industrialization in nineteenth-century France : the case of Lorraine embroidery manufacturing / Whitney Walton -- The calico painters of Estavayer : employers' strategies toward the market for women's labor / Pierre Caspard -- From home to factory : women in the nineteenth-century Italian silk industry / Patrizia Sione -- Survival strategies in a Saxon textile district during the early phases of industrialization, 1780-1860 / Jean H. Quataert -- The commercialization of trousseau work : female homeworkers in the French lingerie trade / Tessie P. Liu.