Abstract: General editor's introduction: R. A. Church and E. A. Wrigley. Introduction: D. T. Jenkins. 1. Textile growth: D. C. Coleman. 2. Proto-industrialization: the first phase of the industrialization process: Franklin F. Mendels. 3. An innovation and its diffusion: the 'new draperies': D. C. Coleman. 4. The supremacy of the Yorkshire cloth industry in the eighteenth century: R. G. Wilson. 5. Proto-industrialisation: the case of the West Riding wool textile industry in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries: P. Hudson. 6. Hargreaves, Arkwright and Crompton. Why three inventors?: R. L. Hills. 7. Concentration and specialization in the Lancaster cotton industry, 1825-1850: A. J. Taylor. 8. Labour, power and the size of firms in Lancashire cotton in the second quaretr of the nineteenth century: V. A. C. Gatrell. 9. Financial Restraints on the growth of firms in the cotton industry 1790-1850.: S. D. Chapman. 10. The rise of protection and the English linen trade, 1690-1790: N. B. Harte. 11. Technology, transaction costs, and the transition to factory production in the British silk industry, 1700-1870: S. R. H. Jones. 12. Enterprise and innovation in the British hosiery industry, 1750-1850: S. D. Chapman. 13. Managers and machinery: an analysis of the rise of factory production: Jon S. Cohen. 14. The launching of an 'infant industry'?: the cotton industry of Troyes under protectionism, 1793-1860: C. Heywood. 15. Regional integration and specialization in the French worsted industry, 1819-1910: an aspect of industrialization in France: K. Honeyman and J. Goodman. 16. The textile industries in Silesia and the Rhineland: a comparative study in industrialization: Herbert Kisch. 17. Product quality and vertical integration in the early cotton textile industry: Peter Temin. 18. The growth of cotton textile production after 1815: Robert Brooke Zevin. 19. The diffusion of cotton processing and trade in the Kinai region in Tokugawa Japan: William B. Hauser. Acknowledgements.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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