Early Factory Masters. The transition to the factory system in the Midlands textile industry

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Based on the writer's 'Midlands Cotton and Worsted Spinning Industry, 1769-1800', PhD, London, 1966. Analyses the backgrounds and careers, motives and rewards, financial and labour problems of the first generation of cotton and worsted manufacturers in the East Midlands, notably Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire but also adjoining counties, together providing an early scholarly history of the East Midlands textile industry as it moved to a factory system of production. Has chapters; 'Domestic textile industry'; 'Concentration of production up to 1769'; 'Spinning Jenny and the evolution of the factory system'; 'Impact of Arkwright'; 'Early factory masters - cotton spinning'; 'Early factory masters - worsted spinning'; 'Capital requirements and recruitment'; 'Influence of mechanised spinning on the development of other industries'; 'Recruitment of labour for the mills'; 'Labour relations'; 'Decline of the Midlands spinning industry'. Has appendices: 1] 'Millowners considered in this study with a summary of sources of information on each'; 2] 'Cotton and worsted mills in the Midlands in which steam engines were installed, 1785-c1815'. Much business specific information included notably re Richard Arkwright and Jedediah Strutt & Co