The Cotton and Textile Industry: Innovation and Maturity: Case Studies in Industrial History

ISBN-13: 9780367024130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 90 str.

John Wilson; Steven Toms; Nicholas D. Wong

Opis

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the field of textile history is illumated for historians of business and economic history.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1 Growth, Profits and Technological Choice: The Case of the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry; 2 Ring and Mule Spinning in the Nineteenth Century: A Technological Perspective; 3 Industrial Relations and Technical Change: Profits, Wages and Costs in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1880–1914