The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780

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Manchester University Press, 1931 - Cotton growing - 539 pages
 

Contents

CHAP
28
ii A Network of Middlemen
36
TOWARDS ECONOMIC FREEDOM
54
INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION
71
THE GROWTH OF THE COTTON TRADE IN THE EIGH
109
THE BEGINNINGS OF CALICO PRINTING
129
THE EXPORT TRADE IN COTTON GOODS
145
iv The Change in the Direction of the Export Trade 1760
164
THE TRANSITION TO INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM
284
iii The Application of Power to Smallware Weaving
301
By A P Wadsworth
309
THE WEAVERS OF MANCHESTER
324
THE BEGINNINGS OF TRADE UNIONISM
340
COMBINATIONS AND STRIKES 175682
355
ii The Suppression of the Weavers Societies 175860
361
THE MANUFACTURING POOR
384

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
MANCHESTER MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS
241
THE COUNTRY MANUFACTURERS
261
EARLY SPINNING MACHINERY
411
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLY SHUTTLE
449
THE SUCCESS OF SPINNING MACHINERY
472
A THE GROWTH OF MANCHESTER
509
D
515
H COTTON PRICES 16071780
522

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