Textile Business in Europe During the First World War: The Linen Industry, 1914-18

Philip Ollerenshaw

Business History, 1999, vol. 41, issue 1, 63-87

Abstract: Focusing on government-business relations, this article contributes to the business history of the First World War. It examines how the linen industry was organised to meet military demand in both continental Europe and the UK. The German occupation of Belgium and northern France, and the consequent exploitation of raw material and manufacturing capacity, is an important theme. The article considers how the UK and Russia organised linen production and the role of establised Anglo-Russian commercial networks (including accountary firms) in facilitating wartime trade. Of major significance during the war was Trading with the Enemy legislation, and the article examines this in some detail before going on to look at the impact of government policy on the labour market at regional level. The article concludes that the war created new problems for the industry which contributed further to its secular decline.

Date: 1999
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