Prices and profits in cotton textiles during the Industrial revolution

Cotton textile firms led the development of machinery-based industrialization in the Industrial Revolution. This paper presents price and profits data extracted from the accounting records of three cotton firms between the 1770s and the 1820s. The course of prices and profits in cotton textiles il...

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Main Author: Harley, C
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2010