El gremio de mercaderes de ropería de Madrid en los siglos XVII y XVIII.: Innovación y estrategias familiares en el sector de la confección

Victoria López Barahona; José Antolín Nieto Sánchez

doi:10.70794/hs.115976

Authors

Victoria López Barahona Universidad Autónoma de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4339-3759
José Antolín Nieto Sánchez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5112-851X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.115976

Keywords:

Clothing, guild, Madrid, innovations

Abstract

This article analyzes the innovations that the guild of clothing merchants introduced in the clothing industry of Madrid since the early seventeenth century, in which they reached a hegemonic position. With notarial sources as the main documentary support, the study delves into these innovations, which consisted of the production and marketing of ready-to-wear garments, the forms of fabric supply, the outsourcing of work and instalment sales in their stores in Plaza Mayor and surrounding streets. The analysis extends to the type of demand they supplied and the forms of reproduction of the trade.

Author Biographies

Victoria López Barahona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

PhD in Modern History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, specializing in the social history of labor. She collaborates in an R&D project at the UAM, Department of Modern History. She is the author of the book Las trabajadoras en la sociedad madrileña del siglo XVII (2016) and several articles, among them, “Mujeres y trabajo en la Edad Moderna. Una perspectiva desde la acumulación originaria”, Nuestra Historia, 10 (2020), pp. 25-48; and "El trabajo de las mujeres en la Real Fábrica de Guadalajara durante el siglo XVIII", Historia Social, 96 (2020), pp. 97-112. She holds two research awards.

José Antolín Nieto Sánchez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Professor of the Department of Modern History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He coordinates the Taller de Historia Social group. For the last thirty years he has been studying the reproduction of artisan trades, artisan migrations, labor conflict, second-hand markets and the transmission of technical knowledge. He is a member of the Spanish Network of Labor History and since 2023 he has been the PI of a project on Social History financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. His book Artesanos y mercaderes. Una Historia Social y Económicade Madrid, 1450-1850, won the Villa de Madrid Prize in 2007.