Stock Ownership in the Early New England Textile Industry
- 1 January 1958
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Business History Review
- Vol. 32 (2) , 204-222
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3111703
Abstract
The unique features of ownership patterns in the early New England textile industry have long been recognized. Hitherto it has been the interlocking or horizontal relationships that have been studied. This article deals, instead, with the vertical pattern — describing ownership in terms of occupational groupings of all the investors rather than the kinship of the dominant owners. Conclusions are drawn in respect to such important points as the principal sources of textile capital, the rate of mercantile capital reinvestment in manufacturing, the relationship between investment and industry integration, and the increasing importance of nonbusiness and institutional vested interests.Keywords
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