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|25 pages
Growth, Profits and Technological Choice
The Case of the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry
chapter 3|22 pages
Industrial Relations and Technical Change
Profits, Wages and Costs in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1880–1914
