Global Shifts and Local Actors
The location of major textile manufacturing centres has shifted several times over the past 250 years, from Asia to Europe and the us, then back to Asia. Mainstream explanations for these shifts take a macro-approach and hence oversimplify the mechanisms behind them. We investigate these mechanisms...
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| author | Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Corinne Boter Sarah Carmichael Katharine Frederick |
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The location of major textile manufacturing centres has shifted several times over the past 250 years, from Asia to Europe and the us, then back to Asia. Mainstream explanations for these shifts take a macro-approach and hence oversimplify the mechanisms behind them. We investigate these mechanisms at the micro-level of the household to gain a deeper understanding of the relocations of textile production worldwide. We do so by studying Dutch and Javanese households’ productive and consumptive behaviour in the period 1820-1940, when colonial relations between these two regions played an important role. We show that households’ labour allocation, livelihood strategies, and consumption preferences are crucial to understand the interaction between global shifts and local actors.
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| spelling | doaj.art-047b0d36a9634355b2c3c55bd124cfd42023-05-04T14:29:54Zengopenjournals.nlBMGN: Low Countries Historical Review0165-05052211-28982023-03-01138110.51769/bmgn-lchr.10961Global Shifts and Local Actors Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk0Corinne Boter1Sarah Carmichael2Katharine Frederick3Utrecht UniversityUtrecht UniversityUtrecht UniversityUtrecht University The location of major textile manufacturing centres has shifted several times over the past 250 years, from Asia to Europe and the us, then back to Asia. Mainstream explanations for these shifts take a macro-approach and hence oversimplify the mechanisms behind them. We investigate these mechanisms at the micro-level of the household to gain a deeper understanding of the relocations of textile production worldwide. We do so by studying Dutch and Javanese households’ productive and consumptive behaviour in the period 1820-1940, when colonial relations between these two regions played an important role. We show that households’ labour allocation, livelihood strategies, and consumption preferences are crucial to understand the interaction between global shifts and local actors. https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/10961 |
| spellingShingle | Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Corinne Boter Sarah Carmichael Katharine Frederick Global Shifts and Local Actors BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review |
| title | Global Shifts and Local Actors |
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