La crise liniere des Flandres. Ouvriers à domicile et prolétariat urbain (1840-1900)

Continuity or Change? The Evolution in the Location of Industry in the Netherlands and Belgium (1820 – 2010)

“…First, different access to labor markets. Schepens (1973), Gubin and Scholliers (1996), and Thoen (2001) stressed that Flemish factory owners withdrew most laborers from the larger cities. Additionally, Vandenbroeke (1979) and Ronsijn (2014) argued that most laborers in the countryside preferred combining part-time sources of income, among which domestic spinning and weaving, over taking up a full-time job at the factory.…”

“…by introducing the flying shuttle (e.g. Mastboom 1994;Gubin and Scholliers 1996). In the Netherlands, this happened through the NHM (e.g.…”

“…In Flanders, though several 'perfecting workshops' or ateliers de perfectionnement (e.g. Gubin and Scholliers 1996). 27 The weaving company Koninklijke Stoomweverij was set up in Hellendoorn in by Godfried and Hein Salomonson, two cotton traders from Almelo, who in 1852 took over the company from Thomas Ainsworth and the Dutch Trading Society (Burgers 1954).…”

“…in which protoindustrialization contributed to the development of a modern industry sector, and the literature that argued how Flanders was an unsuccessful case (e.g. Schepens 1973;Gubin and Scholliers 1996;Thoen 2001). More importantly, our results offer a more nuanced view on the effect of proto-industrialization as similarly argued by Coleman (1983) and Hudson (1990), confirming the view that proto-industrialization paved the way towards modern industrialization for some regions, such as the Eastern Netherlands, but not for all former proto-industrial regions, such as our evidence on Flanders reveals.…”