From domestic manufacture to Industrial Revolution : the case of the Rhineland textile districts / Herbert Kisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kisch, Herbert, 1924-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile industry--Germany--North Rhine-Westphalia--History--18th century.

Textile industry.

Cottage industries--Germany--North Rhine-Westphalia--History--18th century.

Cottage industries.

History.

Germany--North Rhine-Westphalia.

Physical Description:

x, 341 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Summary:

This book is an economic, historical, and sociological examination of rural textile industries in the Lower Rhineland beginning in the sixteenth century, culminating with the age of factory organization in the early 1800s. Drawing on archival sources not available to English language readers, the late Kisch analyzes the evolution of entrepreneurial innovations, the growth of a skilled labor force and changes in institutional mechanisms and patterns of social behavior that prepared this critical economic region for the innovation of factory production that came with the industrial revolution.

Notes:

First published in 1981 as a German translation under title: Die hausindustriellen Textilgewerbe am Niederrhein vor der industriellen Revolution.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195051114

OCLC:

18413240