ANOTHER SPINNING INNOVATION: THE CASE OF THE RATTLING SPINDLE, GARABŌ, IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JAPANESE SPINNING INDUSTRY

Eugene K. Choi

Australian Economic History Review, 2011, vol. 51, issue 1, 22-45

Abstract: Through the importation of the state‐of‐the‐art British spinning technology of the late nineteenth century, a new cotton spinning sector began to emerge in Meiji Japan during the 1870s and 1880s. This hectic technology transfer was accompanied by a remarkable domestic technological breakthrough that enabled the local spinners to significantly increase productivity to meet the unprecedented pace of the soaring market demand. This paper examines a relatively neglected case of the rattling spindle, Garabō, which was a product of Japanese native industrial endowments in parallel with the development of the British‐style mills.

Date: 2011
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