Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prosperity. Intensive farming and the spreading of linen industry were at the root of this favourable evolution. Linen industry represented then 20 to 25% of the physical product. It is then absurd to establish an exclusive link between rural industry and an impoverishing process. The purchase power received a severe blow around the end of the XVIIIth century and the beginning of the XIXth. Through reduced wages and longer working days one attempted to resist foreign competition and technical improvements. As the economic growth slackened at the end of the "Ancien Régime", the demographic behaviour was altered and the population growth slowed down...
Pierre CAYEZ, Delayed proto-industrialization. At the end of the Ancien Regime, the silk industry w...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
Pierre CAYEZ, Delayed proto-industrialization. At the end of the Ancien Regime, the silk industry w...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
From 1857 to 1864, Roubaix experienced the industrial Revolution in all its ruthlessness. Technologi...
The history of this department's textile industries is still to be written. However, XVIIIth and XIX...
The history of this department's textile industries is still to be written. However, XVIIIth and XIX...
From 800 to just before 1350 mills have multiplied. Many disappeared after the plagues, having becom...
The documents presented here bear on the centuries-old conflict opposing Lille to the big boroughs d...
Manufactures and Factories in a Fortified City : Sedan (XVIIth-XIXth Centuries). Its past of strong...
From 800 to just before 1350 mills have multiplied. Many disappeared after the plagues, having becom...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
Pierre Deyon, The Amiens Manufacturing Industry in the XIXth century and the Appeal of Protectionism...
Pierre CAYEZ, Delayed proto-industrialization. At the end of the Ancien Regime, the silk industry w...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
Pierre CAYEZ, Delayed proto-industrialization. At the end of the Ancien Regime, the silk industry w...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
From 1857 to 1864, Roubaix experienced the industrial Revolution in all its ruthlessness. Technologi...
The history of this department's textile industries is still to be written. However, XVIIIth and XIX...
The history of this department's textile industries is still to be written. However, XVIIIth and XIX...
From 800 to just before 1350 mills have multiplied. Many disappeared after the plagues, having becom...
The documents presented here bear on the centuries-old conflict opposing Lille to the big boroughs d...
Manufactures and Factories in a Fortified City : Sedan (XVIIth-XIXth Centuries). Its past of strong...
From 800 to just before 1350 mills have multiplied. Many disappeared after the plagues, having becom...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
Pierre Deyon, The Amiens Manufacturing Industry in the XIXth century and the Appeal of Protectionism...
Pierre CAYEZ, Delayed proto-industrialization. At the end of the Ancien Regime, the silk industry w...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
Pierre CAYEZ, Delayed proto-industrialization. At the end of the Ancien Regime, the silk industry w...