Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Harley, C. Knick

Titel

Cotton Textile Prices and the Industrial Revolution

Ist Teil von

• The Economic history review, 1998-02, Vol.51 (1), p.49-83

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK and Boston, USA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Primary sources document the decline in prices of cotton goods during the industrial revolution. In yarns, coarse weft changed little in price between the 1780s and the end of the century, warp yarns declined more, and the new fine yarns most-nearly 90 per cent. In the next decades, prices of ordinary yarn declined about 4 per cent per year while fine yarn declined less than half as much. The price of cloth declined much less than yarn prices. The price of a standard grey calico declined about a quarter by 1800 and the decline continued for several more decades.