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List of contents
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the evolution of two industries; Part I. The Culture of Business Networks 1750-1860: 2. Industrialisation and the cotton industry in Britain and the United States; 3. Family firms, networks and institutions to 1860; 4. The management of labour to 1860; 5. Networks and the evolution of government-industry relations to 1860; Part II. Continuity and Change: 6. Consolidation and change, 1860-1914; 7. Prosperity and decay in war and peace, 1914-39; 8. The turbulent years, 1939-80: the politics of decline; 9. Conclusion; References; Index.
About the author
Mary B. Rose is Senior Lecturer in Business History in the Management School at the University of Lancaster. She is the author of The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill (1986) and received the 1996 Alan Ball prize for her edited volumeThe Lancashire Cotton Industry: A History since 1700. She is past president of the Association of Business Historians and currently Director of the Pasold Research Fund.
Summary
This book explores the long-term forces shaping business attitudes in the British and American cotton industries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Mary Rose traces social, political and developmental differences to demonstrate how firms become embedded in networks, and evolve according to business values and strategies.
