Vertical integration or specialisation: producing and commercialising cotton goods (1815-1913)

Marc Prat Sabartes
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Marc Prat Sabartes: Universitat de Barcelona

No 188, Working Papers in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia

Abstract: This article describes the ways in which cotton goods were commercialised during the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. Several national cases are analysed: Britain, as the Workshop of the World; France, Germany, Switzerland and the US, as core economies; and Italy and Spain as countries on the European periphery. The main question that we address is why some cotton industries vertically integrated their production and commercialisation processes, but others did not. We present a model that combines industrial district size and product differentiation to explain why vertical integration was present in most cases and why there was vertical specialisation in Lancashire and Lowell.

JEL-codes: L22 L81 M31 N60 N70 N80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2007
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