Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885

by Philip Scranton

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0877224617

ISBN13:9780877224617

Release Date:January 1987

Publisher:Temple Univ Pr

Length:444 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

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19th Century Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Economic History Economics History Industries & Professions Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & Local

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