Cloth Industry in the West of England from 1640 to 1880
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- Author(s) Mann, Julia de L
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1971
- Pages 371pp
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Reprinted 1987. Scholarly study. Covers especially Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, and notably Bradford on Avon, Duisley, Frome, Melksham, Salisbury, Stroud, Trowbridge. Structured in three parts: Part 1] 1640-1790: 'Success of innovation'; 'Decline and recovery'; 'Marketing'; 'Capital and labour'; Part 2] 1790-1880: 'The advent of machinery'; 'Stagnation and decline'; ''The palmy days' and the beginnings of the final decline'; 'Marketing snd labour in the nineteenth century'; Part 3] 'Raw materials and processes': 'Wool'; 'Processes of manufacture'. Extensive appendices [pp308-40] cover: Exports; Quality and weight of cloth'; 'Numbers employed and costs of production'; 'Wages'; 'Volume of production'. Deals at some length with John Anstie, John & Thomas Clark, Edward Sheppard, the Blackwell Hall market