Industrialization and Women's Work: Case Studies of Patterns of Female Employment in Normandy, Flanders and the Centre-Loire Valley, 1715-1900

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The concept of industrialization has consistently produced a wealth of scholarship concerned with itsnature, timeline, causes, and consequences and, in recent decades, growing interest in women's historyhas both perpetuated and significantly reshaped interest in the question. Although the validity of protoindustrialization1as a tool for explaining processes of industrialization has been largely discarded,2acombination of the ongoing interest in consumption as a motor for economic growth3 and protoindustrializationtheory's focus on the household as a unit of production and consumption hasmaintained interest in the concept as a framework for historians wishing to survey women'sinteractions with market forces in the early modern period. More recently, the focus on women's workhas produced numerous works concerned with the impact of industrialization on women's labouropportunities