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Residence-and-Kinship-in-Stonehouse-Gloucestershire-1558-1804

This-study-of-the-parish-of-Stonehouse-Gloucestershire-is-mainly-intended-to-contribute-to-the-current-debate-about-rural-industry-and-the-circumstances-under-which-it-became-a-full-factory-industry-in-some-areas-but-not-in-others-Stonehouse-is-in-the-upper-Stroudwater-district-a-former-centre-of-the-cloth-industry-While-other-regions-began-to-produce-lighter-fabrics-Stroudwater-continued-to-specialise-in-woollen-broadcloth-During-the-seventeenth-century-the-whole-district-developed-an-expertise-in-producing-coloured-cloth-Factory-mills-were-established-after-1800-but-by-1850-the-local-industry-was-declining-in-the-face-of-competition-from-Yorkshire-Any-population-sample-taken-in-the-district-during-the-early-modern-period-might-therefore-be-expected-to-show-numerical-and-social-domination-by-cloth-workers-To-test-this-expectation-a-sample-was-constructed-from-manorial-resiant-lists-which-offer-unusual-scope-in-this-parish-for-identifying-men-and-placing-them-in-properties-The-enquiry-looked-for-the-incidence-of-male-and-female-kinship-links-in-the-passage-of-property-between-residents-to-see-whether-kinship-gave-property-resources-and-consequently-social-influence-to-workers-in-the-cloth-industry-rather-than-to-those-in-other-occupations-The-expected-domination-of-property-and-society-before-1800-by-cloth-industry-workers-in-Stonehouse-was-found-to-be-no-more-than-proportional-to-their-numerical-presence-and-the-same-applied-to-other-occupations-Kinship-networks-had-produced-a-mixed-society-which-was-cautious-about-change-a-possible-factor-in-the-eventual-decline-of-large-scale-cloth-production-in-Stroudwater

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