Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade

Author:

Maxine Berg  

Issue Date:

2005

Abstract(summary):

The rise of the British cotton industry and its central place in the industrial revolution was based in the global trade in luxury goods. This luxury goods trade generated the search for quality consumer goods; the quality of products dominated the priorities of manufacturers and inventors. The Asian trade in export ware provided models of production and distribution and the institutions for making markets for cottons as well as other quality consumer goods. The challenge posed by India was not its cheap labour, but the quality of its products.

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