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Informationen zum Autor John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Industrial History . Steven Toms is Professor of Accounting at the University of Leeds, UK. Nicholas D. Wong is Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the field of textile history is illumated for historians of business and economic history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1 Growth, Profits and Technological Choice: The Case of the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry; 2 Ring and Mule Spinning in the Nineteenth Century: A Technological Perspective; 3 Industrial Relations and Technical Change: Profits, Wages and Costs in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1880–1914
