Silvia Conca Messina

Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies

Lombardy in the Industrial Revolution, 1815-1860

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies makes important contributions to the study and research of the financing of early cotton mills, technology transfer in these entrepreneurial ventures, the organization of production, including a detailed discussion of the available technology, networks and relationships within the district.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138940789
• ISBN-10: 113894078X
• Artikelnr.: 43026518

Autorenporträt

Silvia A. Conca Messina is Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Antecedents to the Factory System 2. Early Spinning Mills
and Localisation 3. The New Cotton Factories: A Short Chronology 4.The
Expansion of Trade: Organisation and Development 5. Local Loan Markets And
Social Networks 6. Setting Up a New Plant 7. Financial Sources and
Commercial Credit 8. Francesco Turati and His Network Enterprise 9. The
"Ponti" Family-Firm: Proto-Industry, Factory and Finance 10. The Cotton
Business in Milan: An Oligarchic Structure 11. Channels and Forms of
Technology Transfer 12. Industrial Plants, Water Wheels And Turbines 13.
Inside the Factories: Textile Machinery and Production Organisation 14.
Slow Changes in Weaving Manufacture Conclusion