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The International Institute of Social History has recently started a new research project. The aim of this project is to write a global and comparative history of textile workers 1650-2000. In order to do this, national overviews as well as thematic papers will be written by several historians across the world, discussed at a conference in November 2004 and finally published.
In the first phase of the project, national studies will be written on textile production in different countries over the period 1650-2000. This lengthy period has been chosen to incorporate the pre-industrial period, proto-industrialisation, the industrial production of textiles from its beginnings in Britain in the eighteenth century, and the de- industrialisation of these early centres of the textile industry. But the focus will not exclusively be on well-known industrial nations. All major textile producing countries will be included. To make them useful tools for international comparisons, these national overviews will be based on a framework document which lists a number of topics/questions to be treated in each overview.
On our web page, you will find a detailed description of our intended programme. Please read this carefully, and also take note of the framework document, according to which all national overviews will be written. (http://www.iisg.nl/research/textileframe.html)
Proposals for a national overview are due before December 1, 2002. Please send a short proposal (500 words max.) by email or by fax.
Lex Heerma van Voss
Els Hiemstra
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
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