Weight: 25% of your final grade Length: 1500 words Due: Upon completion of Unit 4 Instructions This assignment is about conclusions: analytical conclusions on labour and labour struggles in the cotton

Charting Labour Across Time and Space – Cotton

Note: Fill out this table and alter it as you see fit. Use this information to complete Assignment 2 and to compare to the “Charting Labour Across Time and Space – Rubber” table (which you will construct in Unit 3 and write about in Assignment 3). You will also need this table in Unit 4, where you will use it to analyze the connections between changing divisions of labour and labour movements.

	Regions
Time period	Division of labour between:				Control of labour:			Causes of discontent:		Type of workers’ collective power:
and within firms	firms and households	countries	direct		indirect			structural		associational
early 19th century	cotton factories, specialized tasks operating machines	women doing factory and household labour	England importing cotton for manufacturing	machine-paced work, supplemented by overseers		enclosure creating unpropertied working class	long hours, poverty wages, lack of safety equipment, unsanitary housing conditions		integrated factory systems vulnerable to disruptions		unions, struggles for voting rights
	cotton plantations, little specialization	no private households outside the slave plantation	US South exporting raw cotton	overseers		slave trade cut labourers’ ties to means of subsistence	violence, complete lack of personal freedoms		passive resistance, fleeing from the plantation as only escape route		rare cases of rebellion, abolitionist movement incl. support networks for runaway slaves
late 19th century
etc.
etc.