Editors' Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Editors' Introduction xvii
4. Authors' Preface xxi
5. CHAPTER 1. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: The Lowell Manufacturing Company, 1828-1852 1
6. CHAPTER 2. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: The Connecticut Companies, 1825-1854 34
7. CHAPTER 3. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: Three Younger Companies, 1837-1856 58
8. CHAPTER 4. YEARS OF ADAPTATION: The Lowell Manufacturing Company, 1852-1899 70
9. CHAPTER 5. YEARS OF ADAPTATION: The Hartford Carpet Company, 1854-1901 101
10. CHAPTER 6. YEARS OF ADAPTATION: The New York Companies, 1854-1901 125
11. CHAPTER 7. YEARS OF ADAPTATION: The Bigelow Carpet Company, 1854-1899 143
12. CHAPTER 8. THE RECONSTITUTED COMPANIES: The Hartford Carpet Corporation, 1901-1914 163
13. CHAPTER 9. THE RECONSTITUTED COMPANIES: Bigelow Carpet Company, 1899-1914 188
14. CHAPTER 10. THE BIGELOW-HARTFORD CARPET COMPANY, 1914-1924 206
15. CHAPTER 11. CONTINUING GROWTH AND A NEW MERGER, 1925-1929 223
16. CHAPTER 12. YEARS OF DEPRESSION AND RECOVERY, 1930-1936 252
17. CHAPTER 13. FROM RECESSION TO PROSPERITY, 1937-1941 277
18. CHAPTER 14. WARTIME OPERATIONS, 1942-1945 302
19. CHAPTER 15. ADMINISTRATIVE REORGANIZATION AND POSTWAR ADJUSTMENT, 1945-1949 318
20. CHAPTER 16. PROGRESS UNDER ADVERSITY: 1950-1953 343
21. APPENDICES 367
22. NOTES 387
23. INDEX 419