Cotton textile industries vanished from much of East Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book investigates the underlying causes of industrial arrest in the region through a series of in-depth case studies. Findings are considered in light of existing studies on...

Growth, profit and technological choice : the case of the Lancashire cotton textile industry / Steven Toms -- Ring and mule spinning in the nineteenth century : a technological perspective / Roger Holden -- Industrial relations and technical change : profits, wages and costs in the Lancashire...

Capital ownership, capital structure and capital markets: financial constraints and decline in the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1880-1965 -- Quiet successes and loud failures: the UK textile industries in the interwar years -- The decline of the UK textile industry: the terminal years...