The Cotton and Textiles Industry: Managing Decline: Case Studies in Industrial History

ISBN-13: 9780367715885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 102 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: Volume five: contribution and key findings 1. Capital Ownership, Capital Structure and Capital Markets: Financial Constraints and Decline in the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1965 David Higgins and Steven Toms 2. Quiet Successes and Loud Failures: The UK Textile Industries in the Interwar Years Sue Bowden and David Higgins 3. The Decline of the UK Textile Industry: The Terminal Years 1945-2003 Allan Ormerod