Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The regional perspective
- PART ONE THE TEXTILE HEARTLANDS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- 2 Proto-industrialisation and the first industrial revolution: the case of Lancashire
- 3 Capital and credit in the West Riding wool textile industry c. 1750–1850
- PART TWO OTHER PATHS, OTHER PATTERNS
- PART THREE THE DIVERSE NATURE OF THE OUTER REGIONS
- Index
3 - Capital and credit in the West Riding wool textile industry c. 1750–1850
from PART ONE - THE TEXTILE HEARTLANDS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The regional perspective
- PART ONE THE TEXTILE HEARTLANDS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- 2 Proto-industrialisation and the first industrial revolution: the case of Lancashire
- 3 Capital and credit in the West Riding wool textile industry c. 1750–1850
- PART TWO OTHER PATHS, OTHER PATTERNS
- PART THREE THE DIVERSE NATURE OF THE OUTER REGIONS
- Index
Summary
As is well known, the West Riding of Yorkshire grew to dominate the British production of woollen and worsted cloths and yarns during the course of the eighteenth century eclipsing the older centres of East Anglia and the West Country. Spatial concentration of much of an entire sector of industry within a clearly defined industrial region was to become a major feature of British industrialisation, one which lasted into the twentieth century. Sectoral concentration must therefore play an important part in analysis of the dynamics of the industrial revolution but it has largely escaped much of the recent literature on this subject which has concentrated on national aggregates and their interaction. The rapid growth of the Yorkshire textile industry proved to be the first example of major new concentrations of production occurring at this time and, as such, it is important to consider the foundations of its success. What influences conditioned the emergence of dynamic forms of pre-factory and early factory manufacture and why were these influences so bounded in space that it is possible to be quite specific about the geographical extent of activity for a century or more? Put another way: what made this industrial region? On what foundations did its continuing success rely? And how did the network of social and economic relationships at regional level get formed and reformed in the process of economic growth?
This chapter concentrates on networks of credit and capital supply which were important in cementing diverse and dispersed manufacturing localities into a more integrated region.
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- Regions and IndustriesA Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain, pp. 69 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989
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