(Technology and Enterprise: Isaac Holden and the Mechanisation of Woolcombing in France, 1848-1914 * * ) Author: Katrina Honeyman Dec-1986

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Well Suited: A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850-1990 (Pasold Studies in Textile History 11)

(The making of cloth as a central element within industria...)

The making of cloth as a central element within industrialization has been the subject of intense scrutiny, yet the industry that created garments from that cloth has been largely neglected. This book remedies this neglect through a study of the Leeds tailoring trade. Leeds occupies a special place in the history of the UK clothing industry: by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the nation's foremost producer of menswear, and the city remained the production and distribution centre for men's tailoring until the 1980s. This book documents the growth of the tailoring industry in Leeds from remarkably small beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century. Developments in manufacturing, and innovations in retailing practices, brought spectacular success, but, from the 1960s, the industry suffered an equally dramatic decline, caused by managerial failure to invest in human resources and by competition from cheap imports. Katrina Honeyman presents an engrossing story of an industry's rise and fall, charting the history of such familiar household names as Burton, Hepworth, Price, and Collier.

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(Well-suited: A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850-1990 ) Author: Katrina Honeyman Nov-2000

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Technology and Enterprise: Isaac Holden and the Mechanisation of Woolcombing in France, 1848-1914 (Pasold Studies in Textile History) by Jordan Goodman (1986-12-31)

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Technology and Enterprise: Isaac Holden and the Mechanisation of Woolcombing in France, 1884-1914 (Pasold Studies in Textile History)

( This book examines Isaac Holden's achievements both as ...)

This book examines Isaac Holden's achievements both as an inventor and as a specialist woolcomber in France during the second half of the nineteenth century. Early business failure in Bradford prompted Holden's move to France, where, by the late nineteenth century he had built up the largest woolcombing enterprise in Europe. The study further considers the process by which woolcombing was mechanised, and specifies the means employed by the principle inventors to monopolise control of the new technology. By analysing Isaac Holden's technical and commercial exploits within the French worsted industry, the authors have been able to confront the general question of technical change in the process of European industrialisation in the second half of the nineteenth century. This book should appeal to those interested in nineteenth century European economic history, as well as those interested in business history and the history of technology.

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Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England 1700-1870 (British Studies Series) by Katrina Honeyman (2000-07-07)

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Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England 1700-1870 (British Studies Series)

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Women have played an important role in the labor force for hundreds of years, yet it is often assumed that their work was marginal and subsidiary to the more important tasks performed by men. This book explores the ways in which men and women came to operate within two distinct labor markets during the period known as the industrial revolution and explains why industrial capitalism came to depend on a gendered hierarchy of workers. Drawing on twenty years of feminist scholarship it suggests that women workers not only contributed to the wealth of the English economy but through that contribution influenced the direction and progress of the nation's manufacturing industry. This portrayal of women as central and proactive lies in stark contrast to the definition of women workers as cheap, malleable, poorly skilled, and expendable labor that typifies historical account. This book explains the processes by which male workers undermined the value of women in the interests of their own status both at work and at home. It examines the processes by which work became gendered, the mechanisms by which gender hierarchies became established or recreated both at work and at home, the forces underlying the creation of apparently more hostile relationships between them and women during industrialization and she attempts to explain the failure of men and women to unite in order to resist exploitation by employers. Above all it emphasizes the emergence of industrial society in the 19th century as one which was centrally defined by gender.

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