E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten
Rose International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries SInce 1870
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-61915-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-136-61915-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book of essays, which draws on the expertise of leading textile scholars in Britain and the United States, focuses on the problem of and responses to foreign competition in textiles from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
A short introductory essay by the editor is followed by a survey of the debates surrounding the British cotton industry, foreign competition and competitive advantage. The other essays consider various aspects of that competition, including textile machine-making, Lancashire perceptions of the rise of Japan during the inter-war period and responses to foreign competition in the British cotton industry since 1945, whilst others deal with the decline and rise of merchanting in UK textiles and European competition in woollen yarn and cloth from 1870 to 1914. A recurring theme in a number of the essays is Japanese competitive advantage in textiles.
The book is unique since although there are numerous books dealing with the problems of British staple industries, none focuses primarily on the issue of competition, its sources and responses, nor on textiles in general rather than a single industry. Moreover, since the scope is international rather than limited only to the UK, it follows recent trends in British busines history away from single company case studies towards a more thematic, comparative approach. In addition, the international authorship of these papers gives this book, first published in 1991, wide appeal.
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International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries since 1870 MARY B. ROSE 1
The British Cotton Industry and International Competitive Advantage: The State of the Debates WILLIAM MASS and WILLIAM LAZONICK 9
European Competition in Woollen Cloth, 1870–1914 D.T. JENKINS and J.C. MALIN 66
Lancashire and the Rise of Japan, 1910–1937 ALEX J.ROBERTSON 87
Struggling with Destiny: The Cotton Industry, Overseas Trade Policy and the Cotton Board, 1940–1959 MARGUERITE W. DUPREE 106
Showing the White Flag: The Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1945–1965 JOHN SINGLETON 129
The Textile Machine-Making Industry and the World Market, 1870–1960 D.A. FARNIE 150
The Decline and Rise of Textile Merchanting, 1880–1990 STANLEY CHAPMAN 171
Index 191
