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Manchester and the Age of the Factory: The Business Structure of Cottonopolis in the Industrial Revolution

By (author) Roger Lloyd-Jones, By (author) M.J. Lewis

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Manchester and the Age of the Factory (originally published in 1988 and now with a new preface by the authors) focuses on Manchester, the worldâ€™s first industrial city, and its transformation into â€˜Cottonopolis.â€™ The book explores the contribution of the factory and the firm to the business structure and political economy of â€˜Cottonopolisâ€™. The factory is not examined in isolation but in terms of its relation to a range of economic components. A major, and indeed, new emphasis of the work is centred on the relationship between factory and warehouse. These two components are identified as symbolic of two different systems of production, whose political economy at the nodal point of the Industrial Revolution was associated with a struggle over the merits of the mechanised factory as opposed to the manufacturing putting-out system. To investigate the interdependence of economic components, the authors reconstruct Manchesterâ€™s business structure for the years 1815 and 1825. The first reconstruction allows for the examination of the cityâ€™s variegated business structure at a point midway through the classic Industrial Revolution and the ramifications of the empirical findings provide a focus of discussion in the subsequent chapters. The second reconstruction provides a comparative basis for exploring shifting business trends, identifying conflicting business interests and assessing the direct and indirect impact of the factory on the pattern of business development. For instance, the evolving business relationship between the factory and warehouse after 1815 played a pivotal role in shaping a new political economy, examined at both local and national levels. This transformation prompted cotton firms to develop distinctive business strategies focused on managing the factoryâ€™s human and physical resources.

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