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.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

Volume five: contribution and key findings

chapter 1|23 pages

Capital Ownership, Capital Structure, and Capital Markets

Financial Constraints and the Decline of the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry, 1880–1965 *

chapter 2|26 pages

Quiet Successes and Loud Failures

The UK Textile Industries in the Inter-war Years *

chapter 3|44 pages

The Decline of the UK Textile Industry

The Terminal Years 1945–2003