Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies - Lombardy in the Industrial Revolution, 1815-1860

Informationen zum Autor Silvia A. Conca Messina is Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. Klappentext Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies makes important contributions to the study and research of the financing of early cotton mills, technology transfer in these entrepreneurial ventures, the organization of production, including a detailed discussion of the available technology, networks and relationships within the district. Zusammenfassung Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies makes important contributions to the study and research of the financing of early cotton mills, technology transfer in these entrepreneurial ventures, the organization of production, including a detailed discussion of the available technology, networks and relationships within the district. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Antecedents to the Factory System 2. Early Spinning Mills and Localisation 3. The New Cotton Factories: A Short Chronology 4.The Expansion of Trade: Organisation and Development 5. Local Loan Markets And Social Networks 6. Setting Up a New Plant 7. Financial Sources and Commercial Credit 8. Francesco Turati and His Network Enterprise 9. The "Ponti" Family-Firm: Proto-Industry, Factory and Finance 10. The Cotton Business in Milan: An Oligarchic Structure 11. Channels and Forms of Technology Transfer 12. Industrial Plants, Water Wheels And Turbines 13. Inside the Factories: Textile Machinery and Production Organisation 14. Slow Changes in Weaving Manufacture Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Silvia Conca Messina
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138616943
• ISBN: 978-1-138-61694-3
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Business & Economics / General, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Industrialisation and industrial history