Courtaulds. An economic and social history. Volume 1. The nineteenth century, silk and crepe
Details:
- Author(s) Coleman, Donald C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1969
- Pages 283pp; illus
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned history in three volumes. Volume one deals with the 18th and 19th centuries and is arranged in three parts, viz: 1] early activities by the Courtauld family as silversmiths and silk throwsters with sections on 'Huguenots and silversmiths', 'English silk industry'; and 'early history of crepe' [pp1-32]; 2] Courtaulds in the silk industry [pp33-202]; 3] 'Dissenters and radicals', 'Work, wages and welfare', and 'Comparisons and conclusions' [pp203-74]. An appendix provides for Samuel Courtauld & Co an annual analysis of 'Assets, net indebtedness, profits and interest, 1828-90'