Proprietary Capitalism
The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 October 2003
- ISBN 9780521521352
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 229x153x28 mm
- Weight 705 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A careful reconstruction of the rise of textile capitalism in the Quaker City.
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The greatest textile manufacturing centre in America used to be, not Lowell, Massachusetts, but Philadelphia, where in 1880 over eight hundred textile firms employed over fifty thousand workers producing fabrics, carpets, yarns, and knit-goods of every description. Proprietary Capitalism presents a careful reconstruction of the rise of textile capitalism in the Quaker City, whose distinguishing features were immigrant family firms, flexible strategies for production, and an emphasis on skill, quality, and market responsiveness. The small and middle-sized firms in Philadelphia, far from being displaced by corporate competitors, proved durable, functioning through networks of linked specializations, with spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing often performed in separate establishments. Proprietary Capitalism documents the development of a fully realized alternative to the corporate style of mass production that brought fame to New England's mill cities. This book presents a strong challenge for a rethinking of the role of 'small business' in the saga of American industrial development.
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List of maps and figures; Preface; Part I. Pathways to Textile Industrialization: 1. Introduction: the matrix of accumulation; 2. The textile manufacture in corporate Lowell and rural Rockdale; 3. The proprietary alternative at Philadelphia; Part II. 'On Their Own Account': The Proprietary Textile Trades at Philadelphia: 4. The Philadelphia textile manufacture in the early republic; 5. Interim decades, 1830-1850; 6. Proprietary textiles at midcentury: Kensington; 7. Proprietary textiles at midcentury: Germantown and Manayunk; 8. The sixties: war and prosperity; 9. Flexibility and specialization: Philadelphia as the 'paradise of the skilled workman', 1870-1885; 10. Continuity and crisis: the early 1880s; 11. Conclusion: separate establishments; Index.
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