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Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855–1941 de Philip Scranton

Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855–1941

Autor Philip Scranton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 2002
Figured Tapestry is a study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era of the Knights of Labor through World War II. Unlike the bulk fabric enterprises of New England and the South, Quaker City textile firms were 'flexible specialists,' combining skilled labor, versatile technologies, and quick responsiveness to demand shifts to create a vast array of seasonal goods. Scranton assesses the significance and limits of industrial versatility, owner-operated businesses, craft labor and its organizations, and the agglomeration of specialist mills in urban districts. An interdisciplinary blend of business, labor, urban, and economic history, industrial geography, and the history of technology, Figured Tapestry illuminates the hidden world of batch production, the 'other side' of American industrialization, and highlights both the benefits and the hazards of flexibility, a matter of moment to those who seek to reorient current manufacturing away from the rigidities of mass production.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521521369
ISBN-10: 052152136X
Pagini: 536
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Advantage, proprietors, 1886–93; 3. Inside the mill: flexible production and the family firm; 4. From crisis to crisis, 1893–1904; 5. Peace and war, 1904–18; 6. The changing time, 1919–33; 7. Long nights, false dawns, 1933–41; 8. Conclusion; Index.

Recenzii

"[Scranton's] depiction of distinctive production formats and histories for different sectors and areas of the textile industry holds profound implications for understanding not only other American industries and industrial districts but also the process of industrial transformation itself." The Annals of American Academy
"Scranton has a really remarkable ability to draw upon the best recent perspectives in labor, business, technological, and social history without obscuring the perspective of the participants in the history he recounts." Judith A. McGaw, University of Pennsylvania
"In presenting the results of his prodigious research effort, Scranton has produced a book of 500 pages that is dense with facts and figures. It is without any doubt the definitive reference work on the subject. As in many detailed historical accounts, the sheer quantity and diversity of factual information that Scranton presents could have come at the expense of an analytical perspective. Fortunately, such is not the case here. Scranton's overriding perspective on the evolution of the Philadelphia textile region in the U.S. economy, as well as his understanding of the relations among economic, business, labor, and technological history at each stage of that evolution, make this book a masterpiece of historical analysis: that is, details do not just document the historical record; they serve an analytical purpose." William Lazonick, Journal of Economic History

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A study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades.