Proprietary Capitalism

The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800 1885

By: Philip Scranton

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Paperback | 11 November 2003

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The greatest textile manufacturing centre in America used to be, not Lowell, Massachusetts, but Philadelphia, where in 1880 over eight hundred textile firms employed over fifty thousand workers producing fabrics, carpets, yarns, and knit-goods of every description. Proprietary Capitalism presents a careful reconstruction of the rise of textile capitalism in the Quaker City, whose distinguishing features were immigrant family firms, flexible strategies for production, and an emphasis on skill, quality, and market responsiveness. The small and middle-sized firms in Philadelphia, far from being displaced by corporate competitors, proved durable, functioning through networks of linked specializations, with spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing often performed in separate establishments. Proprietary Capitalism documents the development of a fully realized alternative to the corporate style of mass production that brought fame to New England's mill cities. This book presents a strong challenge for a rethinking of the role of 'small business' in the saga of American industrial development.

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List of maps and figures
Preface
Pathways to Textile Industrialization
Introduction: the matrix of accumulation
The textile manufacture in corporate Lowell and rural Rockdale
The proprietary alternative at Philadelphia
'On Their Own Account': The Proprietary Textile Trades at Philadelphia
The Philadelphia textile manufacture in the early republic
Interim decades, 1830-1850
Proprietary textiles at midcentury: Kensington
Proprietary textiles at midcentury: Germantown and Manayunk
The sixties: war and prosperity
Flexibility and specialization: Philadelphia as the 'paradise of the skilled workman', 1870-1885
Continuity and crisis: the early 1880s
Conclusion: separate establishments
Index
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