Stanley D. Chapman

The Cotton Industry in the Industrial Revolution

MOST of what is known about the early development of the cotton industry in Britain can be found in Wadsworth and Mann’s The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780. It appears that the manufacture of cotton came to Britain from the Low Countries in the sixteenth century, one of the range of ‘new draperies’ that was transforming the textile industry in the later Tudor period. It was brought to East Anglia by Walloon and Dutch immigrants who settled in Norwich and other towns and established the manufacture of fustian, a mixture of linen with cotton imported from the Levant. Towards the end of the sixteenth century fustian reached Lancashire and began to oust the woollen industry from the western side of the county.

British Marketing Enterprise: The Changing Roles of Merchants, Manufacturers, and Financiers, 1700–1860

The Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the American Revolution, and our emergence as an independent trading nation all worked profound changes upon the British marketing enterprise, but it is an oversimplification, according to Dr. Chapman, to conclude that manufacturers quickly or entirely replaced traditional British merchant banking houses even down to World War I. He develops three phases of a long-drawn-out process of change that served Britains needs poorly throughout the nineteenth century.

The early factory masters : the transition to the factory system in the Midlands textile industry

The domestic textile industry the concentration of production up to 1769 the spinning-jenny and the evolution of the factory system the impact of Arkwright early factory masters - cotton-spinning early factory masters - worsted-spinning capital requirements and recruitment the influence of mechanized spinning on the development of other industries recruitment of labour for the mills labour relations the decline of the Midlands spinning industry.

Women's employment and industrial organisation: commercial lace embroidery in early nineteenth century Ireland and England

Abstract The early nineteenth century saw expanding work opportunities for women in commercial lace embroidery in Britain. This article traces the connection between the development of commercial lace embroidery in several locations – Nottingham, Essex and Limerick. Despite the fame of the Irish industry, it has received almost no academic attention. The differing structures of the Irish and English industries are examined. Aspects of lace manufacture highlight the increasing emphasis on cleanliness and the respectability of womens work in the nineteenth century. The authors suggest that to appreciate fully the impact of the Industrial Revolution on womens employment opportunities, we must look to the periphery of the national economy, as well as the centre.

The Textile Factory Before Arkwright: A Typology of Factory Development

A survey of insurance records covering eighteenth-century manufactories in three branches of the British textile industry reveals much about the gradual evolution of factory production in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. Professor Chapman suggests that neither size, power source, nor the supervision of work constitutes a useful criterion by which to identify the modern, Arkwright-type factory. The essential characteristic of that institution was that it was specifically designed for flow production, rather than the batch production methods of earlier modes of manufacturing.

Pasolds Ltd., 1930–70. The Strategy of the Leading British Manufacturer of Children's Wear

Abstract This article explores the successful business strategy of Pasolds Ltd, in their bid to be at the forefront of the market for childrens wear in Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Building on the analysis provided by Eric Pasold in his autobiographical work, Chapman considers the story of the firm from the external viewpoint of the historian placing the development of Pasolds Ltd in the wider context of the British ready-to-wear clothing industry. Particular emphasis is placed upon vertical integration, direct marketing, branding and the supply of finance.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the creation of a dynasty: the critical years, 1806–1816 – Herbert H. Kaplan

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