Isbn: 9781041169949 - manchester and the age of the factory: the business structure of cottonopolis in the industrial revolution (routledge revivals) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Manchester and the Age of the Factory (originally published in 1988 and now with a new preface by the authors) focuses on Manchester, the world's first industrial city, and its transformation into 'Cottonopolis.' The book explores the contribution of the factory and the firm to the business structure and political economy of 'Cottonopolis'. The factory is not examined in isolation but in terms of its relation to a range of economic components. A major, and indeed, new emphasis of the work is centred on the relationship between factory and warehouse. These two components are identified as symbolic of two different systems of production, whose political economy at the nodal point of the Industrial Revolution was associated with a struggle over the merits of the mechanised factory as opposed to the manufacturing putting-out system.…