Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies: Lombardy in the Industrial Revolution, 1815-1860

ISBN-13: 9781138616943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 158 str.

Silvia a. Conca Messina

Opis

Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies makes important contributions to the study and research of the financing of early cotton mills, technology transfer in these entrepreneurial ventures, the organization of production, including a detailed discussion of the available technology, networks and relationships within the district.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Antecedents to the Factory System  2. Early Spinning Mills and Localisation  3. The New Cotton Factories: A Short Chronology  4.The Expansion of Trade: Organisation and Development  5. Local Loan Markets And Social Networks  6. Setting Up a New Plant  7. Financial Sources and Commercial Credit  8. Francesco Turati and His Network Enterprise  9. The "Ponti" Family-Firm: Proto-Industry, Factory and Finance  10. The Cotton Business in Milan: An Oligarchic Structure  11. Channels and Forms of Technology Transfer  12. Industrial Plants, Water Wheels And Turbines  13. Inside the Factories: Textile Machinery and Production Organisation  14. Slow Changes in Weaving Manufacture  Conclusion

O autorze

Silvia A. Conca Messina is Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan, Italy.