The Fabric of Profit Inaugural workshop
December 6th-8th, 2023 @ University of Geneva
The Fabric of Profit addresses the history of capitalism as its general theme with a focus on the history of European textiles during the revolutionary age from 1750 to 1850.
DECEMBER 7TH, 2023
08.45-09.00 Welcome – Mary O’Sullivan
09.00-10.00 – John Styles – Textile materialities: fibres, fashion and innovation
10.00-10.15 Coffee break
THEME 1 – WORK & PROFIT IN TEXTILES
10.15-11.15 – Jane Humphries – The fabric of care: spinning and caring in an early capitalist economy
11.15-12.15 – Manuela Martini – New explorations in the history of the textile industry in the long 19th century
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.45-14.45 Mary O’Sullivan – Textile work, commodity chains & profit nodes
14.45-15.00 Coffee break
THEME 2 – PROFITING FROM SILK IN EUROPEAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
15.00-17.00 Panel presentations & discussion
Introduction – Lorenzo Avellino
Paola Bertucci (Zoom) – The Profitable Hand: Spinners, Silk, and the State in the 18th century
Jean-Baptiste Verot – Silk rents: a new plant for new profits in France
Roberto Tolaini – In search of quality: Italian silk producers in a changing market
DECEMBER 8TH, 2023
09.00-10.00 Maxine Berg – The Slave-Sugar Nexus & the World of Malachy Postlethwayt
10.00-10.15 Coffee break
THEME 3 – TEXTILES & TRADE : POSSIBILITIES & LIMITS OF HISTORICAL SOURCES
10.15-12.15 Panel presentations & discussion
Guillaume Daudin & Loïc Charles – French textile exports during the Eighteenth-century: Debunking a Colbertian Myth
Karolina Hutkova – Mercantilism, trade in textiles and the British fiscal state
Rohit Prabu – Accounting for Textile Trade in the East India Companies
12.30-13.30 Lunch
THEME 4 – TEXTILE PROFITS IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
13.45-15.15 Panel presentations & discussion
Lorenzo Avellino – The scramble for silk in Europe, 1755-1820
Léa Meyer – The breaking of Spain’s Merino monopoly, 1765-1830
Felipe Souza Melo – The shifting global axis of European cotton, 1775-1788
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