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    Artisans and work in a Barcelona cotton factory (1770-1816)

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    2000-04
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    Vicente, Martha Valentin
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    Cambridge University Press
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    The present article analyzes the crucial impact that artisan forms of organizing work had in the production of early cotton factories. By examining the case of the Sires factory in Barcelona, this article argues that dividing work by gender and age and working with relatives, all traditional practices in an artisan shop, allowed eighteenth-century factory owners to Face the challenges that production posed. The example of the Sires factory also offers a picture of early industrialization that challenges the long-standing argument that artisan and factory forms of production were antagonistic. Factory owners organized their production and work in ways that replicated the way artisans had long produced and worked in their shops. Moreover, in shops and factories alike, production depended not just on the work of individuals, but also on that of their relatives. Parents and children, husbands and wives - all brought the flexibility of traditional artisan forms of organizing work to the new factories.
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    Vicente, M. Artisans and work in a Barcelona cotton factory. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY. Apr 2000. 45(part 1): 1-23.

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