Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885

by Philip Scranton

Book Overview

The greatest textile manufacturing centre in America used to be, not Lowell, Massachusetts, but Philadelphia, where in 1880 over eight hundred textile firms employed over fifty thousand workers producing fabrics, carpets, yarns, and knit-goods of every description. Proprietary Capitalism presents a careful reconstruction of the rise of textile capitalism in the Quaker City, whose distinguishing features were immigrant family firms, flexible strategies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877224617
• ISBN13: 9780877224617
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.