Women Labor Traditions, Textile Production Traditions, and Textile Market Crashes

[jjhunter]

x-posted from jjhunter

Am hitting research overload, and hoping to crowdsource the last bits I won't have time to look into myself. Any thoughts or links or meta snippets or quotes or whatever, big or small, you might be moved to offer on the following subjects would be deeply appreciated:

• Organized or semi-organized traditions of women's labor, current or historical, particularly as related to periods of conflict with forces of industrialization, changing gender norms, globalization, and/or regime change, and especially as related to traditions of women's labor that provides a degree of economic independence for the women themselves


• Ditto except in regards to small-scale or self-organized traditions of any kind related to textile production (esp. spinning or weaving) in periods of economic, social, and/or political conflict with governing authorities or society at large


• collapse of particular textile industries - e.g., when the silk market crashed after nylon & other synthetic fibers introduced - and what happened to the people whose livelihoods depended on the then 'outdated' industry