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Book New England Textiles in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book New England Textiles in the Nineteenth Century written by Paul F. McGouldrick and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study determines, by means of rigorous quantitative analysis, how cycles in New England cotton textile profits, output, borrowing, and capacity affected investment--and therefore industrial growth--during the nineteenth century. The firms studied were transitional forms between owner-managed companies and the modern corporation. From primary sources, Paul McGouldrick has constructed standardized balance sheets and income statements for each company year by year. A painstaking comparison with a much broader sample of companies shows that trends and cycles in profit rates for companies studied were typical of the industry.

Book A New Order of Things

Download or read book A New Order of Things written by Paul E. Rivard and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly-illustrated social history of the manufacture that did most to transform the character of New England and of America.

Book The Early New England Cotton Manufacture

Download or read book The Early New England Cotton Manufacture written by Caroline Farrar Ware and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Management  Industry  and Trade in Cotton Textiles

Download or read book Management Industry and Trade in Cotton Textiles written by Rockwood Chin and published by NCUP. This book was released on 1965 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Common Thread

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beth Anne English
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2010-01-25
  • ISBN : 0820336696
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book A Common Thread written by Beth Anne English and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With important ramifications for studies relating to industrialization and the impact of globalization, A Common Thread examines the relocation of the New England textile industry to the piedmont South between 1880 and 1959. Through the example of the Massachusetts-based Dwight Manufacturing Company, the book provides an informative historic reference point to current debates about the continuous relocation of capital to low-wage, largely unregulated labor markets worldwide. In 1896, to confront the effects of increasing state regulations, labor militancy, and competition from southern mills, the Dwight Company became one of the first New England cotton textile companies to open a subsidiary mill in the South. Dwight closed its Massachusetts operations completely in 1927, but its southern subsidiary lasted three more decades. In 1959, the branch factory Dwight had opened in Alabama became one of the first textile mills in the South to close in the face of post-World War II foreign competition. Beth English explains why and how New England cotton manufacturing companies pursued relocation to the South as a key strategy for economic survival, why and how southern states attracted northern textile capital, and how textile mill owners, labor unions, the state, manufacturers' associations, and reform groups shaped the ongoing movement of cotton-mill money, machinery, and jobs. A Common Thread is a case study that helps provide clues and predictors about the processes of attracting and moving industrial capital to developing economies throughout the world.

Book The New England Cotton Textile Industry

Download or read book The New England Cotton Textile Industry written by Jacob Herbert Burgy and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Cotton Textiles  Maturity and Decline

Download or read book British Cotton Textiles Maturity and Decline written by David Higgins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the decline of the cotton textiles industry, which defined Britain as an industrial nation, from its peak in the late nineteenth century to the state of the industry at the end of the twentieth century. Focusing on the owners and managers of cotton businesses, the authors examine how they mobilised financial resources; their attitudes to industry structure and technology; and their responses to the challenges posed by global markets. The origins of the problems which forced the industry into decline are not found in any apparent loss of competitiveness during the long nineteenth century but rather in the disastrous reflotation after the First World War. As a consequence of these speculations, rationalisation and restructuring became more difficult at the time when they were most needed, and government intervention led to a series of partial solutions to what became a process of protracted decline. In the post-1945 period, the authors show how government policy encouraged capital withdrawal rather than encouraging the investment needed for restructuring. The examples of corporate success since the Second World War – such as David Alliance and his Viyella Group – exploited government policy, access to capital markets, and closer relationships with retailers, but were ultimately unable to respond effectively to international competition and the challenges of globalisation. The chapters in this book were originally published in Business History and Accounting, Business and Financial History.

Book Path Dependence and the Origins of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in New England

Download or read book Path Dependence and the Origins of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in New England written by Joshua L. Rosenbloom and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of cotton textiles. This paper argues that the expansion of domestic textile production is best understood as a path- dependent process that was initiated by the proetction provided by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. This intial period of protected ended abruptly in 1815 with the conclusion of the war and the resumption of British imports, but the political climate had been irreversibly changed by the temporary expansion of the industry. After 1815 nascent manufacturers sought to protect the investments they had made by lobbying Congress. Their efforts had an important impact on the provisions concerning cotton textiles in the tariff bill of 1816, and during the 1820s manufacturers won increasingly strong protection, culminating in the passage of the Tariff of Abominations' in 1828.

Book Transactions of the New England Cotton Manufacturers  Association

Download or read book Transactions of the New England Cotton Manufacturers Association written by New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes transactions of annual and semi-annual meetings.

Book The Growth of Manufacturing in Early Nineteenth Century New England

Download or read book The Growth of Manufacturing in Early Nineteenth Century New England written by Robert Brooke Zevin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the growth of manufacturing in early nineteenth century New England.--The growth of cotton textile production after 1815.--The use of a "long run" learning function, with application to a Massachusetts cotton textile firm, 1823-1860.

Book The Cotton Manufacturing Industry of New England

Download or read book The Cotton Manufacturing Industry of New England written by Boston Chamber of Commerce. Bureau of Commercial and Industrial Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Movement of Wages in the Cotton Manufacturing Industry of New England Since 1860  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Movement of Wages in the Cotton Manufacturing Industry of New England Since 1860 Classic Reprint written by Stanley Edwin Howard and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Movement of Wages in the Cotton Manufacturing Industry of New England Since 1860 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Run of the Mill

Download or read book The Run of the Mill written by Steve Dunwell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of the human, mechanical and environmental determinants of New England's textile industry, the social, technological, cultural, and economic factors that perpetrated its creation, consolidation and decline and the remaining legacy.