Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800 1885 by Philip Scranton

Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800 1885

Philip Scranton

448 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

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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 ...

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