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Agriculture and Cottage Industry: Redefining the Causes of Proto-Industrialization

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  • Gullickson, Gay L.

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Prevailing theory regards subsistence or pastoral agriculture as a prerequisite for the spread of proto-industry. Commercial agriculture and proto-industrialization are viewed as incompatible. The expansion of the cotton industry in the pays de Caux, a fertile cereal-producing region in Normandy, contradicts the theory and indicates that seasonal unemployment and landleness, not subsistence agriculture, were the distinguishing features of proto-industrial regions. When these regions were located near market towns, the peasants' need for off-season work complemented the growing demand of eighteenth-century merchants for a large labor supply and determined the location of proto-industries.

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  • Gullickson, Gay L., 1983. "Agriculture and Cottage Industry: Redefining the Causes of Proto-Industrialization," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 43(4), pages 831-850, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:43:y:1983:i:04:p:831-850_03
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    1. Greif, Gavin, 2022. "Merchants, proto-firms, and the German industrialization: the commercial determinants of nineteenth century town growth," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 113346, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Yuling Ma & Jiajun Qiao & Dong Han, 2022. "Simulation and Prediction of Evolution of Specialized Villages Agglomeration Based on System Dynamics," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-18, July.
    3. Sokoloff, Kenneth L. & Tchakerian, Viken, 1997. "Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest in 1860," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 34(3), pages 243-264, July.

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