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The cotton and textile industry : innovation and maturity / edited by John F. Wilson, Steven Toms and Nicholas D. Wong.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge focus on industrial history.
- Routledge focus on industrial history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cotton textile industry--England--Lancashire--History.
- Cotton textile industry.
- Textile industry--Great Britain--History.
- Textile industry.
- Textile industry--England--History.
- History.
- England.
- Great Britain.
- England--Lancashire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (92 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Industrial History. Steven Toms is Professor of Accounting at the University of Leeds, UK. Nicholas D. Wong is Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.
- Contents:
- Growth, profit and technological choice : the case of the Lancashire cotton textile industry / Steven Toms
- Ring and mule spinning in the nineteenth century : a technological perspective / Roger Holden
- Industrial relations and technical change : profits, wages and costs in the Lancashire cotton industry, 1880-1914 / Stephen Procter and Steven Toms
- Capital ownership, capital structure and capital markets : financial constraints and decline in the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1880-1965 / David Higgins and Steven Toms
- Quiet successes and loud failures : the UK textile industries in the interwar years / Sue Bowden and David Higgins
- The decline of the UK textile industry : the terminal years 1945-2003 / Allan Ormerod.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: The cotton and textiles industry
- ISBN:
- 9780429680465
- 042939974X
- 9780429680458
- 0429680465
- 9780429680441
- 0429680457
- 9780429399749
- 0429680449
- Publisher Number:
- 40030462707
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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