Proprietary Capitalism : The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800–1885 (Paperback)

List of maps and figures; Preface; Part I. Pathways to Textile Industrialization: 1. Introduction: the matrix of accumulation; 2. The textile manufacture in corporate Lowell and rural Rockdale; 3. The proprietary alternative at Philadelphia; Part II. 'On Their Own Account': The Proprietary Textile Trades at Philadelphia: 4. The Philadelphia textile manufacture in the early republic; 5. Interim decades, 1830?1850; 6. Proprietary textiles at midcentury: Kensington; 7. Proprietary textiles at midcentury: Germantown and Manayunk; 8. The sixties: war and prosperity; 9. Flexibility and specialization: Philadelphia as the 'paradise of the skilled workman', 1870?1885; 10. Continuity and crisis: the early 1880s; 11. Conclusion: separate establishments; Index.