Author: Jenkins, D.T.; editor:
Title: The Textile Industries [The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 8]
Description: Oxford / Cambridge, Blackwell, 1994. orig.cloth. 25x17cm, xliii,438 pp, Series: Economic Historical Society, The Industrial Revolutions, 8.. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bump. VG. ¶ Contains 12 papers. Includes: D.C.Coleman "Textile Growth"; F.F. Mendels " Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of the Industrialization Process";D.C. Coleman "An Innovation & Its Diffusion: The 'New Draperies'"; R.G. Wilson "The Supremacy of the Yorkshire Cloth Industry in the 18th Century";P. Hudson "Proto-Industrialization: The Case of the West Riding Wool Textile Industry in the 18th & 19th Centuries"; R.L. Hills "Hargreaves, Arkwright & Crompton: Why Three Inventors?"; A.J. Taylor "Concentration & Specialization in the Lancashire Cotton Industry"; V.A.C. Gatrell "Labour, Power & the Size of Firms in Lancashire Cotton in the Second Quarter of the 19th Century"; S.D. Chapman "Financial Restraints on the Growth of Firms in the Cotton industry 1790-1850"; N.B. Harte "The Rise of Protection & the English Linen Trade, 1690-1790"; S.R.H. Jones "Technology,Transaction Costs & the Transition to Factory Production in the British Silk Industry, 1700-1870"; S.D. Chapman "Enterprise & Innovation in the British Hosiery Industry, 1750-1850"; J.S. Cohen "Managers & Machinery: An Analysis of the Rise of Factory Production"; C. Heywood "The Launching of an 'Infant Industry': The Cotton Industry of Troyes Under Protectionism, 1793-1860"; K. Honeyman & J. Goodman "Regional Integration & Specialization in the French Worsted Industry, 1810-1910: An Aspect of Industrialization in France"; H. Kirsch "The Textile Industries in Silesia & the Rhineland: A Comparative Study in Industrialization"; P. Temin "Product Quality & Vertical Integration in the Early Cotton Textile Industry"; etc.

Keywords: European Industrial History, Textile Industry, Great Britain, Germany England, France, Economics Economy, Economic, English Linen Trade, Lancashire Cotton