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The location of the UK cotton textiles industry in 1838 : a quantitative analysis
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Crafts, N. F. R. and Wolf, Nikolaus (2014) The location of the UK cotton textiles industry in 1838 : a quantitative analysis. The Journal of Economic History , 74 (4). pp. 1103-1139. doi:10.1017/S0022050714000874
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050714000874
Abstract
We examine the geography of cotton textiles in Britain in 1838 to test claims about why the industry came to be so heavily concentrated in Lancashire. Our analysis considers both first and second nature aspects of geography including the availability of water power, humidity, coal prices, market access, and sunk costs. We show that some of these characteristics have substantial explanatory power. Moreover, we exploit the change from water to steam power to show that the persistent effect of first nature characteristics on industry location can be explained by a combination of sunk costs and agglomeration effects.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions T Technology > TS Manufactures |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cotton manufacture -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- 19th century, Lancashire (England) -- Economic conditions -- 19th Century, Industrial clusters -- Great Britain -- 19th Century, Industrial location -- Great Britain -- 19th century | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Journal of Economic History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0022-0507 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2014 | ||||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 August 2016 | ||||||||
| Volume: | 74 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1103-1139 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0022050714000874 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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