The Cotton and Textiles Industry: Managing Decline
The Cotton and Textiles Industry: Managing Decline

Author: John F. Wilson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1000353400

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This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved. Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.

The Spinning World
The Spinning World

Author: Giorgio Riello

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 0199696160

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This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. It provides new answers to two questions: what is it about cotton that made it the paradigmatic first global commodity? And second, why did cotton industries in different parts of the world follow different paths of development?

Cotton Textile Industry
Cotton Textile Industry

Author: P. S. Mohana Kumar

Publisher: Reliance Publishing House

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9788175100206

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Study with reference to Kerala, India.

Cotton
Cotton

Author: Beverly Lemire

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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"This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of war between East and West, of technological and industrial revolution, social modernisation, colonialism and slavery. And yet cotton remains one of the most significant mass commodities today. Cotton's history and track record on labour conditions and the environment have tarnished its history and reputation, even as cotton clothes have become the mark of modern industrialised society. Yet cottons also take other cultural forms and cotton textiles and artifacts are part of a vibrant craft tradition in many parts of the world. This book explores the history, impact and ongoing life of this hugely influential textile"--