‘A New and Differing Face in Many Places’: Three Geographies of Industrialization

Gregory, Derek

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-219253-1.50020-8

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“…86 We agree that the shift of the industry was multi-causal and with Derek Gregory who contends that Adam Smith 'believed that the price of coal affected the location of industry through its effect on the wage bill rather than as a factor of production in its own right'. 87 For a manufacturer, the minimisation of labour costs, the largest contributor to the cost of cloth production, accounting for at least twice the cost of wool, was a key component for profit maximisation. It would be expected that woollen manufacturing moved to those places where wages were lowest.…”

Section: Coal Wages and The Cost Of Livingmentioning

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Adam Smith revisited: the relationship between the English woollen manufacture and the availability of coal before the use of steam power

Sugden,

Keibek,

Wells

et al. 2023

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The timing of textile de-industrialisation in eastern, southern, and western England and the concomitant shift of the woollen manufacture to the West Riding of Yorkshire is examined in temporal detail. The study shows that the manufacture was moving to settlements with cheap coal, low cost of living and running water as early as the sixteenth century. These settlements became key woollen manufacture centres and remained so until the nineteenth century. The industry was located on the West Riding of Yorkshire coal field long before the industrial revolution and the demand for coal to generate steam power.

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Section: Coal Wages and The Cost Of Livingmentioning

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Adam Smith revisited: the relationship between the English woollen manufacture and the availability of coal before the use of steam power

Sugden,

Keibek,

Wells

et al. 2023

Cont. Change

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“…The degree of annihilation of space by time was still limited by the middle decades of the nineteenth century (Thrift 1987). Combined with the highly regionalised pattern of contemporary industrialisation (Langton 1984;Gregory 1990;Hudson 1992), this meant that the social landscape took the form of an elaborate mosaic made up of a network of localised class and occupational structures. In short, and as Thrift (1987, 29) notes: .…”

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Space, place and pollbooks: incorporating a neglected electoral geography

Dunham

1997

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This paper calls f i r the incorporation of pre-I872 (and especially early Victorian) elections into the electoral geography research agenda. It argues that early Victorian elections provide a rare opportunity to examine actual voting behaviour at the individual level and also constitute a valid focus of enquiy in their own right. The paper concludes by discussing some of the principal methodological implications of an historical electoral geography.

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“…While the national economy of England was becoming increasingly integrated thanks to new transport and telecommunication technologies, regional specialization was also making considerable progress during the industrialization period at the turn of the 20 th century. Most scholars agree that regional specialization and national integration were not dichotomous phenomena at that time, and instead emphasize that increasing regional specialization depended on concomitant processes of intra-and inter-regional integration (Gregory 1990).…”

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Telegraph communication networks used by the Japanese pharmaceutical industry in 1901

Amijima

2019

Miscellanea Geographica

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This article examines how the communication network of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry operated around the turn of the century to create spatial interactions across the national medicine market during a period of intense industrialization. In 1901, pharmaceutical wholesalers in Osaka compiled The Telegraph Codebook of Pharmacies in Japan to facilitate national trade in medicine, although its use was restricted to only the 177 pharmacies that joined the Pharmaceutical Telegraph Communication Alliance. This alliance had close ties with wholesalers in Osaka and comprised national-level qualified chemists. The use of this communication network by telegraph enabled the integration and progression of the Japanese pharmaceutical market in the early 20th century; however, pharmacies also began to build different and layered communication networks that corresponded to their respective business styles. Findings indicate that pharmacies used different communication networks of different spatial scales, thereby operating regional specialization and national integration networks simultaneously.

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‘A New and Differing Face in Many Places’: Three Geographies of Industrialization

Cited by 23 publications

References 27 publications

Adam Smith revisited: the relationship between the English woollen manufacture and the availability of coal before the use of steam power

Adam Smith revisited: the relationship between the English woollen manufacture and the availability of coal before the use of steam power

Space, place and pollbooks: incorporating a neglected electoral geography

Telegraph communication networks used by the Japanese pharmaceutical industry in 1901

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