Resources
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- The Woollen Industry of Moreton
- History of the woollen industry and its organization in Moreton, Devon, Great Britain, which' existence was first recorded in 1297.
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- Verdant Works
- The history of the jute industry in Dundee, Scotland, from 1833 when the first jute textile mill was built by merchant and flax spinner David Lindsay, until the industry's decline in the 1960's.
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- Weaving in Yorkshire
- Illustrated history of the cloth weaving industry in the Yorkshire area of the United Kingdom in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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- John Kay and the Flying Shuttle
- Short biography, photographs and narrative on his flying shuttle invention .
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- A Global History of Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1600-1850
- European University Institute 2007 working paper, revisiting and situating the historiography of Ottoman cotton textiles within ongoing debates concerning the emergence of a world economy through the lens of the cotton industry as the first global industry. Author: Athanasios Gekas. [PDF]
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- Australian Innovation in Textile Technology
- A review of the history, development and current state of the art in textile technologies and processes. From the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering's Technology in Australia 1788-1988.
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- Child Labor and the Division of Labor in the Early English Cotton Mills
- Pre-publication draft paper from 1994 about child labor in the English cotton textile industry, the move away from it prior to child labor legislation in the early 1830's, and the development of a labor market for productive adult factory workers during the Industrial Revolution. Author: Douglas A. Galbi. [PDF]
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- Cotton Promotes Slavery
- Short article from 'An Outline of American History', showing how the combination of the introduction of new types of cotton, Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin and the Industrial Revolution which vastly increased demand for cotton, contributed to the continuation of slavery in the United States.
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- Cotton Textile Exports from the Indian Subcontinent, 1680-1780
- Paper presented at the XIV International Economic History Congress in 2006, discussing the historical importance for regional and global trade of cotton textile exports from India from the late 17th Century to the end of the 18th Century. Author: Prasannan Parthasarathi. [PDF]
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- De-Industrialisation and Colonial Rule: The Cotton Textile Industry in Indonesia: 1820-1942
- Paper presented at the 2006 Helsinki XIV International Economic History Congress, assessing the thesis that the de-industrialising impact of colonial rule explains the near-absence of a cotton textile industry in colonial Indonesia. Author: Pierre van der Eng. [PDF]
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- Economic Change and Sex Discrimination in the Early English Cotton Factories
- Research paper discussing the wage discrimination between men and women working in the early English cotton textile industry, using a labor sorting model as an alternative explanation of how discrimination could be transmitted from established labor markets to the new factory labor market. Author: Douglas A. Galbi. [PDF]
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- Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the Later Middle Ages
- Article on the major changes in textile products, production costs, prices, and market orientations during the era. Author: John Munro. [PDF]
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- Industrial Change in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Low Countries
- Review of the circumstances which resulted in Merino wools to become the chief woollen cloth in the southern Low Countries during the later fifteenth and early sixteenth Century. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. [PDF]
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- Japan and the Crisis in Cotton Mills in Interwar Bombay: The Role of Labor Institutions
- Draft paper prepared for the International Economic History Congress of 2006, suggesting that the cotton textile industry in India lost the competition with Japan in the period between the two World Wars as the leading center of supply because of its inferior labor organization. Author: Tirthankar Roy. [PDF]
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- Linen - From Field to Fabric
- Short narrative about flax cultivation, fiber processing and linen textile manufacturing. From Scholehouse for the Needle, a resource and forum for sharing educational information about embroidery from the 17th to 19th centuries. Author: Alison Smith.
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- Mill Life in Lowell: 1820-1880
- Collection of essays, photographs, images, letters and songs related to the daily life of cotton textile workers on Lowell, Massachusetts, during a period that lasted nearly a century. From the Center for Lowell History.
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- Subcontracting and Vertical Integration in the Spanish Cotton Industry
- Working paper on economic history examining the changes in the organization of the Spanish cotton textile industry from 1720 to 1860 in its core region of Catalonia. Author: Joan R. Rosés. [PDF]
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- Textiles as Articles of Consumption in Flemish Towns
- Reconstruction of a Flemish basket of consumables price index for the period 1350-1500, aimed to determine the value of luxury broad woven woollen cloth related to income. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. Author: John H. Munro. [PDF]
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- The "Industrial Crisis" of the English Textile Towns
- Working paper arguing that the industrial crisis of the traditional English textile towns during the period 1290-1340 was caused by a far reaching economic crisis afflicting their major cloth markets in the Mediterranean basin, rather then the emergence of supposedly superior, lower-cost rural competition. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full text on PDF document. [PDF]