Hosiery and Knitwear. Four centuries of small-scale industry in Britain, c1589-2000
Details:
- Author(s) Chapman, Stanley D
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2002
- Pages 328pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Small businesses
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Marketing inc brand & product development, distribution, etc
- Name Globalisation issues
- Name Acquisition, takeover, merger, etc, activity exc competition issues
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Seminal history of the industry tracing its successive phases of growth and analysing the factors that promoted new enterprise or restrained or killed it. Much concerned with small businesses that characterised the industry. Has chapters; 'Genesis of the British hosiery industry, 1600-1750'; 'Enterprise and innovation, c1750-1810'; 'The doldrums, 1810-50'; 'Transition to the factory system, 1850-1915'; 'Boom time, 1920s-60s'; 'Rise and decline of the textile conglomerates, 1960s-80s'; 'Marks & Spencer and the British clothing industry'; 'Globalisation and decline'. Much on individual firms - eg Courtaulds Ltd; N Corah & Sons Ltd, Kayser Bondor Ltd; I & R Morley Ltd; Nottingham Manufacturing Co Ltd; Pretty Polly