Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted Industries. From the earliest times up to the Industrial Revolution

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Reprinted 1965. Early scholarly account. Has chapters: 1] 'The infancy of the woollen industry in Yorkshire' - 'Rise of clothmaking' / 'Flemish immigration' / 'Character of the rural industry during the fourteenth century' / 'Gild organisation in the urban textile industry'; 2] 'Decay and expansion during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries' - 'Decline of the textile industry in Beverley and York' / 'Expansion of the woollen industry in the West Riding' / 'Appendix - distribution of the English woollen industry in the fifteenth century'; 4] 'Organization of the West Riding industry in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries' - 'The clothier and the domestic system' / 'Apprenticeship' / 'The journeyman' / 'Wool supply and the middleman'; 5] 'State regulation of the Yorkshire cloth industry up to the seventeenth century'; 6] 'Markets and merchants - the organization of home and foreign trade in Yorkshire cloth up to the Restoration'; 7] 'Stuart experiments in industrial regulation - gilds and companies'; 8] 'From the Restoration to the Industrial Revolution. The period of progress' - 'The rise of the worsted industry in the West Riding' / 'Progress of the woollen industry during the eighteenth century'; 9] 'Distribution and organization of the cloth industry during the eighteenth century' - 'Distribution of industry' / 'The homes of the workers' / 'Industrial organization' / 'Apprenticeship in the eighteenth century' / 'Journeyman in his relations to the clothier'; 10] 'The processes of manufacture - from the sheep's back to the cloth hall' - 'Wool supply' / 'Manufacture'; 11] 'Merchants, markets and cloth halls'; 12] 'The state and industrial mortality in the eighteenth century' - 'The Worsted Committee'