The Cotton and Textile Industry: Innovation and Maturity : Case Studies in Industrial History (Routledge Focus on Industrial History)

Wilson, John F. (EDT)/ Toms, Steven (EDT)/ Wong, Nicholas D. (EDT)

Routledge（2021/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 98 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367024130
• DDC分類 338.4767721094276

Full Description

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved.

Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector.

Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.

Contents

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