The Textile Industries in Silesia and the Rhineland: A Comparative Study in Industrialization*

Herbert Kisch

The Journal of Economic History, 1959, vol. 19, issue 4, 541-564

Abstract: The gradual yet cumulative advance of West European capitalism was in large part epitomized by the developments of its textile trades. They were the first to carry the seeds of economic change into the stagnant preserves of guild conservatism, and subsequently they again proved to be the pioneers of the new factory system. In Germany the sequence of economic change was not quite as uniform. Each German textile district emerged as a specific case of economic growth with contours of industrial evolution that manifested unique deviations from the broad pattern of development. The heterogeneity of the German lands, particularly marked before the advent of the railways, was both cause and effect of this diversity.

Date: 1959
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