Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750
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Development of the cotton industries in Britain and America in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
Acknowledgements;1. Introduction: the evolution of two industries; Part I. The Culture of Business Networks 1750-1860: 2. Industrialisation and the cotton industry in Britain and the United States; 3. Family firms, networks and institutions to 1860; 4. The management of labour to 1860; 5. Networks and the evolution of government-industry relations to 1860; Part II. Continuity and Change: 6. Consolidation and change, 1860-1914; 7. Prosperity and decay in war and peace, 1914-39; 8. The turbulent years, 1939-80: the politics of decline; 9. Conclusion; References; Index.
