By David Rollison
Via a chain of sharply targeted reports spanning 3 centuries, David Rollison explores the increase of capitalist production within the English nation-state and the revolution in awareness that observed it. Combining the empiricism of English historiography with the rationalism of Annales, and drawing on rules from quite a lot of disciplines, he argues that the explosive implications of the increase of rural created new social formations and changed the communal, cultural and social contexts of peoples lives. utilizing localized case experiences of households and participants the ebook starts off with major element and strikes out to accumulate a refined and leading edge view of English cultural identities within the early glossy interval.
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The apparent solidity of its statistics can be accepted only if all the other available evidence confirms it. The top four towns, measured by their ‘specialisation ratio’, were Stroud, Bisley, Painswick and Minchinhampton, the centres of the Stroudwater Valley complex. Wotton-under-Edge, in seventh place, and Dursley, eighth, were the organisational centres of the Vale of Berkeley clothmaking district. Wickwar, ninth, was still an important clothing centre on the fringes of the Berkeley district in 1608, but clothmaking ebbed away thereafter, hence its anomalous population profile.
Kingswood Chase, on the north-eastern edges of Bristol, was a major coalgetting district. Atkyns was not locating an industry isolated in an ocean of peasants. ‘Reckoning the fine with the coarse, [he] computed that fifty thousand cloaths are made yearly,’ worth £500,000 per year. At least fourteen different crafts were involved in processing from yarn to finished cloth. Every cloth was the work of a fourteen-person team. Assuming that each team produced ten cloths a year, about 5,000 ‘teams’ were needed to produce Atkyns’ total: 70,000 men, women and children, or about 60 per cent of a total population of 120,438.
Continued successful access to markets entailed constant erosion of the skilled clothworker’s independence. 52 Comparison of the muster-lists with later data shows that in the later decades of the seventeenth century the number of looms in Gloucestershire ‘at THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS 41 least doubled and the number of clothiers increased by a hundred or more’. The illustrative cases of Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge tend to confirm Kerridge’s assertion that the introduction of new fabrics and techniques increased the direct control of the big clothiers over all stages of the production process.
