English Pillow Lace Industry. A study of rural industry in competition during the nineteenth century
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- Author(s) Spenceley, G F R
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 1974
- Publisher University of Hull
- Place Published Hull
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Marketing inc brand & product development, distribution, etc
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Social responsibility, social control & philanthropy
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Library:
- Name Hull University Library
- City Hull
- County Humberside
- Country England
- Postcode HU6 7RX
- Visit Hull University Library's website
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Notes:
See also the writer's 'English pillow lace industry, 1840-80. A rural industry in competition with machinery', Business History, 19, 1977. Provides a history of the industry largely in the 19th century but with chapters on the period before 1800 and the early decades of the 20th century. Focuses especially on the reasons for the survival of the industry in the 19th century in face of fierce competition from the Midlands machine lace industry and traditional European producers. Organised in six parts: 1] Origins and growth to 1815; 2] Competitors - machine lace industry, continental producers; 3] Industrial structure and organisation in 19th century including putting out system, market for lace, etc; 4] Industry and competition including decline; 5] Social aspects - workers health, child labour, state intervention; 6] Early 20th century - including philanthropic lace associations