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Financing Cotton
British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780-2000
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2020
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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 tothe 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 onbusiness 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 ofindustrialisation; 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 forothers?
STEVEN TOMS is Professor of Accounting at the Leeds University Business School.
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 tothe 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 onbusiness 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 ofindustrialisation; 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 forothers?
STEVEN TOMS is Professor of Accounting at the Leeds University Business School.
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Contributor: Steven Toms
STEVEN TOMS is Professor of Accounting at the Leeds University Business School.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
1 - PART I: EXPANSION
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1 Industrialization and Capital Formation
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2 Industrialization and Profitability
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3 The Factory Act Debates: Financial Perspectives
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4 Industrial Democracy and Co-operative Finance
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5 Industry Growth and Financial Networks
153 - PART II: APOGEE AND DECLINE
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6 Entrepreneurs, Technology and Industrial Organization
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7 Financial Speculation, Restructuring and Survival
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Epilogue
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Appendix 1: Cotton Industry Financial Database – Sample Firms and Sources
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Appendix 2: Money Equivalent Values
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Bibliography
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Index
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Boydell Press
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