Gender and the Guild Order: The Garment Trades in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Judith G. Coffin

The Journal of Economic History, 1994, vol. 54, issue 4, 768-793

Abstract: This article concerns female labor, guild organization, and eighteenth-century political economy. The first half of the article analyzes the changing relations between the major men's and women's guilds in the Parisian clothing trades, the norms that governed those relations, and the social and economic forces that reshaped them. The second half focuses on pre-revolutionary petitions from the guilds, which illustrate dramatically the different ways in which guildsmen and women interpreted the rules of gender in the corporate order. The guildswomen's distinctive perspective reflected their history, experience, and changing currents of economic thought.

Date: 1994
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