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

工业化的概念一直产生了大量关于其性质、时间、原因和后果的学术研究，近几十年来，对妇女历史的兴趣日益浓厚，既延续了对这个问题的兴趣，也极大地重塑了对这个问题的兴趣。尽管原工业化作为解释工业化过程的工具的有效性在很大程度上已被抛弃，但对消费作为经济增长动力的持续兴趣，以及原工业化理论对家庭作为生产和消费单位的关注，使人们对这一概念保持了兴趣，并将其作为一个框架，供希望调查现代早期妇女与市场力量相互作用的历史学家使用。最近，对妇女工作的关注产生了许多关于工业化对妇女劳动机会的影响的著作

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