Cotton and Textile Industry: Innovation and Maturity

John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Industrial History.Steven Toms is Professor of Accounting at the University of Leeds, UK. Nicholas D. Wong is Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.

• Introduction; 1 Growth, Profits and Technological Choice: The Case of the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry; 2 Ring and Mule Spinning in the Nineteenth Century: A Technological Perspective; 3 Industrial Relations and Technical Change: Profits, Wages and Costs in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1880–1914

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