Technical Change in the Mid-nineteenth Century British Cotton Textile Sector
Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Cotton
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Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Cotton
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Author : James Montgomery
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780871691897
Behind the original pubication of Montgomery's "Practical Detail" (1840) lay the continuing concern about world markets & international economic & technological leadership. Montgomery's achievement lay in the wealth & reliability of the comparative data he assembled, for the first time, about the Am. & British cotton industries, which were then the high tech of industrializing societies. For the tech. & economics of production of the early 19th century cotton industries, his work remains indispensable. A mss. has recently surfaced in which Montgomery recorded the changes he intended for the 2nd ed. of his classic. The vol. is prefaced by a biog. of Montgomery, tracing his Scottish background & his migration from Glasgow to New England in the 1830s, & an intro. to the 2nd ed., establishing its context. Appended to the Montogmery text are the documents of the "justitia controversy," from the Boston newspapers of 1841, in which the merits & relative costs of steam & water power were debated. Scholarly footnotes, textual & substantive, are provided as appropriate. Illus.
Author : S. B. Saul
Publisher : Egmont Books (UK)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Paul F. McGouldrick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674614000
This unique study determines, by means of rigorous quantitative analysis, how cycles in New England cotton textile profits, output, borrowing, and capacity affected investment--and therefore industrial growth--during the nineteenth century. The firms studied were transitional forms between owner-managed companies and the modern corporation. From primary sources, Paul McGouldrick has constructed standardized balance sheets and income statements for each company year by year. A painstaking comparison with a much broader sample of companies shows that trends and cycles in profit rates for companies studied were typical of the industry.
Author : S. B. Saul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Innovations - Grande-Bretagne
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Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136602186
First Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a attempt to apply social theory to history. Such an analysis naturally calls for two components: (1) a segment of social theory; and (2) an empirical instance of change. For the first the author has selected a model of social change from a developing general theory of action; for the second, the British industrial revolution between 1770 and 1840. From this large revolution is the isolated the growth of the cotton industry and the transformation of the family structure of its working classes.
Author : David Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131540365X
This book examines the decline of the cotton textiles industry, which defined Britain as an industrial nation, from its peak in the late nineteenth century to the state of the industry at the end of the twentieth century. Focusing on the owners and managers of cotton businesses, the authors examine how they mobilised financial resources; their attitudes to industry structure and technology; and their responses to the challenges posed by global markets. The origins of the problems which forced the industry into decline are not found in any apparent loss of competitiveness during the long nineteenth century but rather in the disastrous reflotation after the First World War. As a consequence of these speculations, rationalisation and restructuring became more difficult at the time when they were most needed, and government intervention led to a series of partial solutions to what became a process of protracted decline. In the post-1945 period, the authors show how government policy encouraged capital withdrawal rather than encouraging the investment needed for restructuring. The examples of corporate success since the Second World War – such as David Alliance and his Viyella Group – exploited government policy, access to capital markets, and closer relationships with retailers, but were ultimately unable to respond effectively to international competition and the challenges of globalisation. The chapters in this book were originally published in Business History and Accounting, Business and Financial History.
Author : Paul A. David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 1975-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521098755
Monograph on historical experiences of technological change, Innovation and economic growth in the USA and the UK during the 1800's - covers agricultural mechanization, industrial development and infrastructure change, etc. Bibliography pp. 315 to 324, graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author : Mary B. Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136619224
This book of essays, which draws on the expertise of leading textile scholars in Britain and the United States, focuses on the problem of and responses to foreign competition in textiles from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A short introductory essay by the editor is followed by a survey of the debates surrounding the British cotton industry, foreign competition and competitive advantage. The other essays consider various aspects of that competition, including textile machine-making, Lancashire perceptions of the rise of Japan during the inter-war period and responses to foreign competition in the British cotton industry since 1945, whilst others deal with the decline and rise of merchanting in UK textiles and European competition in woollen yarn and cloth from 1870 to 1914. A recurring theme in a number of the essays is Japanese competitive advantage in textiles. The book is unique since although there are numerous books dealing with the problems of British staple industries, none focuses primarily on the issue of competition, its sources and responses, nor on textiles in general rather than a single industry. Moreover, since the scope is international rather than limited only to the UK, it follows recent trends in British busines history away from single company case studies towards a more thematic, comparative approach. In addition, the international authorship of these papers gives this book, first published in 1991, wide appeal.
Author : Lisa M. Higdon
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Textile workers
ISBN :