silk industry

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silk industry

Under control

life in a nineteenth-century silk factory
1983
Explores the importance of women workers in the nineteenth-century textile industry through a case study of the English firm, Samuel Courtaulds, looking at workers at home, at the factory, and in society, and discussing workers' resistance.

Silk Road

monks, warriors & merchants on the Silk Road
2008
Examines the history of the overland trade routes that connected China with Europe that allowed the transmission of cultural and social ideas and beliefs that helped shape civilization and includes sixty-two color photographs, seventeen maps, and museum listings of many Silk Road treasures.

The silk and spice routes

1994
Examines the opening and development of the silk route and the effects of trade between the East and the West.

The silk and spice routes

1994
Discusses the opening of trade routes between Europe and Asia and explores the impact of the spice trade carried on over these routes.
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