Conference 5: Cotton Textiles

Osaka, December 2004

Papers presented

• Karou Sugihara, "Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Global History" (PDF)
• Patrick O'Brien, "The Mechanization of English Cotton Textile Production from Kay (1733) to Roberts (1822)" (PDF)
• Om Prakash, "Textile Manufacturing and Trade Without and With Coercion: The Indian Experience in the Eighteenth Century" (PDF)
• Debin Ma, "Between Cottage and Factory: the Evolution of Chinese and Japanese Silk-Reeling Industries in the Latter Half of 19th Century"(PDF)
• Masaki Nakabayashi, "Co-ordination Failure Avoided: The Role of the Treaty Port in Japan's Integration into the International Economy in the Late 19th Century"(PDF)
• Joan R. Rosés, "From Sub-Contracting to Vertical Integration: Organizational Innovation in Spanish Cotton Industry, 1830-1870"(PDF)
• Takeshi Abe, "Technological and Organizational Absorption in the Development of the Modern Japanese Cotton Industry" (PDF).  Associated graphs (PDF)
• Janet Hunter and Helen Macnaughtan, "Gender and the Global Textile Industry, 1825-2000" (WORD)
• Pierre van der Eng, "Cotton Textile Industry in Indonesia during 19th and 20th Centuries"
• William Gervase Clarence-Smith, "The Cotton Textile Industries of Southeast Asia and 'Bantu' Africa, 1840s to 1950s"(PDF)
• Colin Lewis, "Cotton Textiles and Industry in Latin America: from 'de-industrialisation' to 're-industrialisation', c.1800-1939"(PDF)
• Toru Kubo, "Chinese Cotton Industry in the 20th Century"(PDF)
• Kenneth Pomeranz, "Cotton Textiles, Division of Labour and the Economic and Social Conditions of Women: A Preliminary Survey" (PDF)
• Osamu Saito, "Pre-Modern Economic Growth Revisited: Japan and The West"  (PDF)