Courtaulds: an Economic and Social History, Volume 1Clarendon P., 1969 - 283 pages Historical background of a large enterprise of the textile industry in the UK - refers to entrepreneurship of the courtauld family in the 19th century and development by the enterprise of the industrial production of silk, crepe and synthetic fibres, and covers investment, technological change, innovation, working conditions of textile workers, wages, labour relations, trade unionism, sociological aspects, etc. Biography courtauld family. |
Contents
The English Silk Industry | 9 |
The Early History of Crape | 24 |
PART II | 33 |
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