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Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris. The seamstress represented the quintessential "working girl," and the sewing machine …
A study of the seamstresses of late 17th and 18th-century France, who developed a quintessentially feminine occupation that became a major factor in the urban economy.
Examines the social institution of the seamstresses' guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. The author asserts that the rise of the absolute state, with its centralizing and unifying tendencies, could increase women's economic, social, and legal opportunit…