Gender, Work, and Culture
Why the Industrial Revolution Came Early to England but Late to China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2516201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack A Goldstone, Jack Α Goldstone (0000-0003-1524-6081, University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1389340 |
| OpenAlex | W2064546977 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 58 |
Neither technical inability nor population/resource imbalances prevented China from developing mechanized cotton-spinning. However, restrictions on the deployment of female labor outside the home, promulgated by Confucian ethics and enforced by the state as part of social control, prevented widespread adoption of machinery requiring extra-household use of female labor. Under such conditions-which did not obtain in Europe, where female wage labor had long been used for service outside of natal households-factory production could not compete with household production
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |