Financing Cotton

British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780-2000
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78327-509-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 334 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History

This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.

The cotton and textile industry, at the centre of the industrial revolution, has long been a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy. This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry for the first time. Using a unique underlying data-set drawn from financial business records of over 100 cotton and textile-manufacturing firms based in Lancashire, and ranging from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century, Financing Cotton analyses the dynamics of industrial capitalism by uncovering the interaction between financial systems and technological development and innovation. It offers new perspectives on business practices and their evolution, as well as decisions taken by entrepreneurs, managers and employees. The book broadly investigates five questions: how and why were individual firms profitable and what happened to these profits; how did the firms' financial structure and performance influence their attitudes to employment regulation; what were the effects of financial networks and institutions on the characteristics of the first and second phase of industrialisation; how did the financial system enable or stifle entrepreneurship and investment in new technology and, finally, why did consolidation and industrial restructuring offer survival options for some firms, but not for others?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toms, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Industrialization and capital formation
Industrialization and profitability
The Factory Act debates: Financial Perspectives
Industrial demoncracy and co-operative finance
Industry growth and financial networks
Entrepreneurs, technology and industrial organization
Financial speculation, restructuring, and survival
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Toms, Steven
STEVEN TOMS is Professor of Accounting at the Leeds University Business School.