The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914

This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War. The book examines the industry chronologically and through themes such as precursors, technology, capital and employers, markets, labour and work, placed within their broader economic and scoial contexts. Its account of the cotton industry is set within important historiographical debates such as proto-industrialisation, the speed of industrial change, the diffusion of technology, the labour process, paternalism, workplace control, entrepreneurship and theories of industrial decline. Cotton was Scotland's premier industry during the Industrial Revolution and this book will be wlecomed by specialists, students and interested readers alike.

ISBN 0719080827   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780719080821 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 544 Publisher Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Imprint Manchester University Press   Height (mm) 234 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 03 May 2010   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 338.476772109034   Academic level General, Further/Higher education DEWEY edition DC22

Acknowledgements List of tables List of illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1. Beginnings: The pre-history of the industry 2. Expansion: 1778-1830 3. Foreign competition, diversification and decline: 1830-1914 4. Technology 5. Workers 6. Employers 7. Conclusion Appendix I. Wills and probate inventories Bibliography Index

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