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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521252458
• ISBN13: 9780521252454
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"