This book is an economic, historical, and sociological examination of rural textile industries in the Lower Rhineland beginning in the sixteenth century and culminating with the age of factory organization in the early 1800s. Drawing on archival sources not available to English language readers, Kisch analyses the evolution of entrepreneurial innovations, the growth of a skilled labour force, and changes in institutional mechanisms and patterns of social behaviour
that prepared this critical economic region for the innovation of factory production that came with the industrial revolution.
- ISBN10 0195051114
- ISBN13 9780195051117
- Publish Date 14 September 1989 (first published 27 July 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 354
- Language English