New answers to old questions: transport costs and the slow adoption of ring spinning in Lancashire
It has been argued that the additional cost of transporting ring yarn in the vertically and geographically specialised Lancashire cotton industry was sufficiently high to deter spinners from adopting rings. The absence of a transition to large scale vertically integrated plants is seen as a form of...
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University of Oxford
1998
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