Well Suited. A history of the Leeds clothing industry, 1850-1900
Details:
- Author(s) Honeyman, Katrina
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 360pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Marketing inc brand & product development, distribution, etc
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
- Name Oral history
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly and comprehensive account from its inception of the history of the Leeds ready made clothing industry, especially outerwear, including suits, for men. Based on wide range of sources but notably interviews with women workers, trade unionists and manufacturers. Has sections: 'Ready to go, An industry in the making'; 'Ready made. The structure and development of the Leeds clothing industry, 1850-1914'; 'Made to measure. Structure and strategy, 1914-40'; 'United to change. Strategy and structure, 1940-70'; 'Cutting edge. The technology of tailoring production'; 'A stitch in time. The organisation of production and work'; 'Tailor made. The history of trade unionism among the Leeds clothing workers'; 'Engendering work. The division of labour in the Leeds tailoring trade'; 'Suitable improvements. Upgrading resources in the Leeds clothing industry'; 'Redressing the balance. Women workers and the Leeds clothing strike of 1970'; 'An industry in tatters. The decline of the Leeds clothing industry'