TY - BOOK ID - 1078364 TI - The genesis of industrial capital : a study of the West Riding wool textile industry c. 1750-1850. PY - 1986 SN - 0521256712 0521890896 0511560583 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Wool industry KW - Capitalism KW - Laine KW - Capitalisme KW - History KW - Industrie et commerce KW - Histoire KW - West Yorkshire (England) KW - History. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Market economy KW - Economics KW - Profit KW - Capital KW - Wool-growing industry KW - Wool trade and industry KW - Woolgrowing industry KW - Sheep industry KW - West Yorkshire, Eng. KW - West Yorkshire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1078364 AB - This book analyses the sources of finance used in the Yorkshire wool textile sector during a period of rapid expansion, considerable technical change and the gradual transformation from domestic and workshop production to factory industry. Although there has been much recent debate about capital investment proportions and their sources nationally, there is no other study of a region or section capable of testing various hypotheses current in the general literature of the British 'industrial revolution'. How was capital amassed in proto-industry? How important were merchants in building factories? What role did landowners and the local banking sector? What influence did trade credit and fluctuations in trade credit have on the expansion of productive enterprise? How important was reinvestment and what determined both profitability and the extent to which it was ploughed back into business? The answers to these questions have value for all students of the industrialisation process, whilst the detailed material on Yorkshire is of interest for local study and provides a model of the questions which could be asked in other similar regional studies of the future. ER -