The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780

Alfred P. Wadsworth, Julia De Lacy Mann

Manchester University Press, 1931 - Cotton growing - 539 pages

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Contents

• CHAP: 3
• CHAP: 28
• SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CAPITALISM: 29
• ii A Network of Middlemen: 36
• iii Small Masters and Journeymen: 49
• FIRST STEPS IN THE TRANSITION TO THE FACTORY SYSTEM: 97
• INDIAN INFLUENCES ON THE COTTON TRADE: 111
• THE BEGINNINGS OF CALICO PRINTING: 129
• THE EXPORT TRADE IN COTTON GOODS: 145
• THE COTTON INDUSTRY BETWEEN 1740 AND 1780: 170
• THE FRENCH COTTON INDUSTRY AND ITS RELATIONS WITH: 193
• BOOK III: 209
• iii The Beginnings of the Canal: 220
• ii The Raw Materials: 232
• MANCHESTER MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS: 241
• THE COUNTRY MANUFACTURERS: 261
• THE TRANSITION TO INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM: 284
• CHAP: 298
• THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION: 311
• THE WEAVERS OF MANCHESTER: 324
• i The Dutch Loom Weavers: 333
• THE BEGINNINGS OF TRADE UNIONISM: 340
• ii The Lancashire Weavers Combinations: 355
• THE MANUFACTURING POOR: 384
• ii The Defences of the Employer: 395
• EARLY SPINNING MACHINERY: 411
• THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLY SHUTTLE: 449
• THE SUCCESS OF SPINNING MACHINERY: 472
• iii The Carding Machine in Lancashire: 486
• APPENDIX PAGE: 509
• INDEX: 525

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780; Volume 7 of Economic history series; Issue 205 of Publications of the University of Manchester; Publications of the University of Manchester: Economic history series
• Authors: Alfred P. Wadsworth, Julia De Lacy Mann
• Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1931
• Length: 539 pages