| Description |
1 online resource (x, 149 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
Through the study of a regional industry, the book illustrates the impact of an expanding national market on a previously isolated market, offering new insights into a pioneer industry in the West and into the business methods and procedures of the time. The book discusses the growth of a myriad of small processing and manufacturing plants which drew raw materials from, and geared production and sales to that local economy, enjoying as they did, protection from eastern competitors who were saddled with high freight rates. The book demonstrates that once urbanization occurred in the region, bri. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Eastern Background -- Wool Manufacturers Enter the Middle West -- The Marketing of Wool in the Middle West -- Quests for Wool and WOrkers -- Production and Sales in the Local and Regional Market -- The Impingements of a Nationalizing Market -- The Struggle for Survival. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Woolen goods industry -- Middle West.
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Woolen goods industry. |
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Middle West. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crockett, Norman L. Woolen industry of the Midwest. Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, ©1970 x, 149 pages 9780813151861 |
| ISBN |
9780813162584 electronic book |
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0813162580 electronic book |
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9780813151861 |
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0813151864 |
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0813111951 |
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9780813111957 |
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