Spinning in 18th century Spain: labour relations and remunerations

This paper provides a broad picture of New Catile's textile manufactures focusing on the organization of spinning, the supply of spinning labour, remunerations and productivity average. The main objective is to insert the case of Castile and Spain in the wider frame of early-modern European spinning.

Victoria López Barahona is a postdoctoral researcher at U. Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
Her main interest is women's work in the 18th and first decades of the 19th centuries, particularly on the city of Madrid and the region around it. In 2013 she received the annual prize of the Spanish Assoc of Women Historians for her work Las escuelas-taller: aprendizas, oficialas y maestras de niñas en la industria textil madrileña del Setecientos [Workshop-schools: female apprentices, journeywomen and mistresses in the textile industry of Madrid during the eighteenth century]. She has published extensively on various aspects of the industry, the labour market and the living conditions of the working population, with a special focus on women. 

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