Product Description: Hoisery and knitwear is familiar as a traditional British industry of small-scale family firms. This pioneer study traces in rich detail the tensions between internal aspirations of leaders (craftmanship, lifestyle, and supporting infrastructure) and external pressures (banks, wholesalers, chain store groups, and takeovers)...read more

Product Description: This collection brings together a range of key sources on the cotton industry. Although it focuses on a critical period from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, developments during this period are placed in a broader historical context.

An early surrealist novel, written by automatic writing while the author was in a trance, presents characters that appear and disappear like the figures in a dream

Product Description: The factory system of production began in Britain after Arkwright left Lancashire and found Midland backers in 1769. The earliest centres of the pioneer cotton industry were around Nottingham and Arkwright's second base and Cromford...read more