The Organization of the Rhineland Textile Industries on the Eve of the March Revolution.

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  • 三月前期ライン繊維工業における経営形態
  • 3ガツ ゼンキ ライン センイ コウギョウ ニ オケル ケイエイ ケイタイ

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Abstract

Herewith it is intended to throw light on the business organization in the Rhineland textile industries in the "pre-March Revolution period", which had been the most important sector in this very heart of German industrial revolution in the former half of the 19th century. We would rather limit our considerations, among manifold textile industries unfolding in this period, to cotton industry, the axis of the industrial revolution. The cotton indusury in Lower Rhine region had its origin in the Siamosen (cotton and linnen manufacture), which was transmitted of the Wupper valley into this area in 1770's, combinated with the hereditary linnen manufacture, and it was established finally in the Napoleonic period. There had been two centres of the Lower Rhine cotton industry i.e. Rheydt and Monchen=Gladbach on the left bank, and Barmen and Elberfeld in the Wupper valley on the right. These two areas made a very conspicuous contrast in their actions about the protective tariff problem in front of the pressure of English products' flood. The former throughout had been contending a protective duty on the imported twisted yarn, which made up a pre-condition of the rise of spinning industry, the leader of technical innovation in the pre-March Revolution period. The latter district, in favour of weavers, was entirely against this protection. Now out of what reason did this contrast come? We must investigate more deeply the business organization of the two types. This is also an important preliminary work in order tounderstand the process of the industrial revolution in Rhineland which went their course in full scale after 1848, as well as to grasp the stratification and constellation of several classes in this area in the March Revolution.

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  • The Journal of Agrarian History

    The Journal of Agrarian History 7 (3), 20-33, 1965

    The Agrarian History Society (Renamed as The Political Economy and Economic History Society)

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