Hanging by a Thread. The Scottish cotton industry, c1850-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Knox, William W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1995
- Pages 204pp; illus
- Publisher Carnegie Publishing
- Place Published Preston
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
- Name Labour & labour market
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work dealing with the decline of the Scottish cotton textile industry in late 19th century to 1914 and the notable exception in this of cotton thread, based at Paisley, which thrived. Defines the decline as an early example of deindustrialisation. Analyses the reasons for the different fortunes of the two sectors, focusing especially on J & P Coats Ltd and Clark & Co Ltd of Paisley, and dealing especially with the impact of industrial relations - 'it eschews an economic or conventional business history approach in favour of examining the issues from a labour process perspective. Chapters include: 'Economic development of the Scottish cotton industry, c1850-1914' - employment / investment and output; 'Technological change and the labour process' - cotton spinning / weaving / thread; 'Employers' strategy and organisation'; 'Worker organisation and industrial conflict' - trade unionism in spinning, weaving, thread / industrial conflict