The Warp of Ulster's Past

Preface - Introduction; M.Cohen - PART 1: LINEN AND THE FABRIC OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IRELAND, 1690-1830 - The Irish and Scottish Linen Industries in the 18th Century; J.Gray - The Irish Linen Board, 1711-1828; H.Gribbon - Contested Terrain: The Making of a Market Culture in Ulster Linens; A.McKernan - Ideology and Materialism: Politicization and Ulster Weavers in the 1790's; N.Curtain - Linen and the Irish Northwest: Unfinished Business, or the Experience of the 1830's; J.Vincent - PART 2: AN EMERGING CAPITALIST LINEN INDUSTRY, 1825-1920 -Irish Linen: A Peripheral Industry; D.O'Hearn - Problems of the European Linen Industry, 1870-1914; P.Ollerenshaw - Vertical Integration and De-integration in Spinning and Weaving, 1830-1913; E.Boyle - The Loom, the Land and the Marketplace: Women Weavers and the Family Economy in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Ireland; B.Collins - Toward an Historical Anthropology of Work: Structure and Subjectivity Among Linen Workers in Tullylish, 1900-1920; M.Collins - List of Tables and Figures - Index