The Cotton and Textiles Industry: Managing Decline (Routledge Focus on Industrial History)

ISBN 10: 0367715953 / ISBN 13: 9780367715953

Published by Routledge, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cotton and Textiles Industry: Managing Decline (Routledge Focus on Industrial History)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367715953
• ISBN 13: 9780367715953
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved.

Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector.

Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.

About the Author

John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle. 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.