The SHARE meetings are bi-monthly seminars created, coordinated, and held by doctoral students enrolled in the third cycle of studies in history, archiology and geography of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho / Lab2PT. Besides being an opportunity for doctorate students to meet, each session enables a doctoral student to present the progress of their research and receive contributions from their peers.

 

SHARE.ICS #14 Sofia Vaz | Textile activity in a changing parish. Ronfe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Textile production was, of all the manufacturing activities, the one that experienced the greatest industrial development in Vale do Ave, at the end of the nineteenth century. With antecedents in the production of linen, in self-consumption, and as a complement to agricultural work, the development of the cotton industry experienced a very characteristic evolution of this region, based on the production of small workshops and work at home.

The turning point was the new organization of factory production, with salaried and intensive labor, and which, even if it did not abandon the traditional system at home, created different social dynamics in which work in the fields and industrial work were articulated in the same family nucleus. Several generations have accompanied this transition. Men, women and children are involved in textile work.

It is in this context, and given the geographical location of the parish of Ronfe, strategically placed in the connection of the Guimarães/Famalicão industrial axis, which is justified in addressing the social dynamics related to textile production

 

Biography: Born in Guimarães, she has a degree in History from the University of Minho (2009) and a master’s degree in Information and Documentation Sciences (Archives) from FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2012). She is currently an archivist at the Portuguese Environment Agency, and a PhD student in History at the University of Minho. The central theme of his doctoral study is the production of flax in the river basin of the Ave River in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

 

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Photograph by Jorge Marçal da Silva – Lisbon Municipal Archive