ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|23 pages
Capital Ownership, Capital Structure, and Capital Markets
Financial Constraints and the Decline of the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry, 1880–1965
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chapter 2|26 pages
Quiet Successes and Loud Failures
The UK Textile Industries in the Inter-war Years
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