History of the Rag Trade
Details:
- Author(s) Burrows, Hermann
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1956
- Pages 93pp
- Publisher MacLaren
- Place Published London
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the collection / processing / recycling of rags as waste. Written by an executive working in the industry at Batley / Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, the centre of the rag processing trade. Has chapters: 'Nineteen hundred'; 'Rag gatherers'; 'Rags for papermaking'; 'Beginnings of waste reclamation'; 'Shoddy and mungo'; 'Schemes for co-operation' [ie business interest]; 'Arrival of the 20th century'; 'Before and after World War 1'; 'Disturbing events'; 'Recent history'