Industrial Revolutions: The Textile Industries, Volume 8

Introduction: D. T. Jenkins.

1. Textile growth: D. C. Coleman.

2. Proto-industrialization: the first phase of the industrialization process: Franklin F. Mendels.

3. An innovation and its diffusion: the 'new draperies': D. C. Coleman.

4. The supremacy of the Yorkshire cloth industry in the eighteenth century: R. G. Wilson.

5. Proto-industrialisation: the case of the West Riding wool textile industry in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries: P. Hudson.

6. Hargreaves, Arkwright and Crompton. Why three inventors?: R. L. Hills.

7. Concentration and specialization in the Lancaster cotton industry, 1825-1850: A. J. Taylor.

8. Labour, power and the size of firms in Lancashire cotton in the second quaretr of the nineteenth century: V. A. C. Gatrell.

9. Financial Restraints on the growth of firms in the cotton industry 1790-1850.: S. D. Chapman.

10. The rise of protection and the English linen trade, 1690-1790: N. B. Harte.

11. Technology, transaction costs, and the transition to factory production in the British silk industry, 1700-1870: S. R. H. Jones.

12. Enterprise and innovation in the British hosiery industry, 1750-1850: S. D. Chapman.

13. Managers and machinery: an analysis of the rise of factory production: Jon S. Cohen.

14. The launching of an 'infant industry'?: the cotton industry of Troyes under protectionism, 1793-1860: C. Heywood.

15. Regional integration and specialization in the French worsted industry, 1819-1910: an aspect of industrialization in France: K. Honeyman and J. Goodman.

16. The textile industries in Silesia and the Rhineland: a comparative study in industrialization: Herbert Kisch.

17. Product quality and vertical integration in the early cotton textile industry: Peter Temin.

18. The growth of cotton textile production after 1815: Robert Brooke Zevin.

19. The diffusion of cotton processing and trade in the Kinai region in Tokugawa Japan: William B. Hauser.

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