TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crockett,Norman L.
TI  - The woolen industry of the Midwest /Norman L. Crockett
SN  - 9780813162584
AV  - HD9897 .W665 1970
PY  - 1970///
CY  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Woolen goods industry
KW  - Middle West
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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