Overview
This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War.The book examines the industry chronologically and through themes such as precursors, technology, capital and employers, markets, labour and work, placed within their broader economic and scoial contexts. Its account of the cotton industry is set within important historiographical debates such as proto-industrialisation, the speed of industrial change, the diffusion of technology, the labour process, paternalism, workplace control, entrepreneurship and theories of industrial decline. Cotton was Scotland's premier industry during the Industrial Revolution and this book will be wlecomed by specialists, students and interested readers alike. -- .
Full Product Details
Author: Anthony Cooke ,
Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.667kg
ISBN: 9780719080821
ISBN 10: 0719080827
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 March 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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Adult education
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General
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
this is very good social and economic history -- Mark Watson. Vernacular Building (The rise and fall of the Scottish cotton industry) has clearly elaborated the multi-dimensional character of the Scottish textile industry -- Janet Greenlees. English Historical Review 20120201 Tony Cooke has made a notable contribution to our understanding of early industrialisation and its impact...This is a significant study -- Ian Donnachie. IHR online very well written...an excellent study of the cotton industry in Scotland -- Jim Phillips. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies a book of quality that acts as a welcome addition to historical analyses of this important area of Scottish manufacturing...helps to deliver new and interesting information on the historiography of the cotton industry -- David Walker. Scottish Historical Review, Volume 90 A very well-written account of a Scottish industry...(photographs and colour plates, for example of the sari shawl peacock design) add yet more to this very accessible study -- Alastair Durie. History Scotland (Vol. 11, No 1 pp 56-57) 20120131
Author Information
Anthony Cooke was formerly Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education, University of Dundee and Historical Consultant to Historic Scotland on the restoration of Stanley Mills, Perthshire
