Publication: Crisis económica y respuesta empresarial. Los inicios del sistema fabril en la industria algodonera catalana, 1797-1839
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Marcial Pons : Centro de Estudios Constitucionales : Fundación Fomento de la Historia Económica
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El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los inicios del sistema fabril en la industria algodonera catalana, mostrando cómo fue justamente durante el período que abarca la crisis del Antiguo Régimen cuando se pusieron los fundamentos de la industrialización catalana. En la primera parte se estudian las condiciones que permitieron la aparición de las primeras hilaturas mecánicas en los años del cambio de siglo. En la segunda se aborda la continuidad del proceso de modernización industrial tras la Guerra de la Independencia. Se intenta mostrar cómo la respuesta empresarial a la crisis provocada por la pérdida de las colonias americanas y la quiebra de la hacienda pública consistió básicamente en la apuesta por el cambio técnico y organizativo.
This paper is aimed at analysing the origins of the factory system in the Catalan cotton industry. It concludes that the Catalan industrialisation process can be considered to have been founded during the crisis of the Spanish Ancient Regime. In order to show this, two different pieces of information are presented. Firstly, the appearance of the first mechanical spinning mills by the end of the 18th century, as well as the conditions that allowed it, is studied. Secondly, the subsequent modernisation of the sector after the Spanish War of Independence is analysed. We try to show that, after the crisis brought about by the loss of the Empire and the bankruptcy of the Treasury, the response of the sector mainly consisted of intensifying technical and organisational change and defending commercial prohibicionism.
This paper is aimed at analysing the origins of the factory system in the Catalan cotton industry. It concludes that the Catalan industrialisation process can be considered to have been founded during the crisis of the Spanish Ancient Regime. In order to show this, two different pieces of information are presented. Firstly, the appearance of the first mechanical spinning mills by the end of the 18th century, as well as the conditions that allowed it, is studied. Secondly, the subsequent modernisation of the sector after the Spanish War of Independence is analysed. We try to show that, after the crisis brought about by the loss of the Empire and the bankruptcy of the Treasury, the response of the sector mainly consisted of intensifying technical and organisational change and defending commercial prohibicionism.
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Revista de Historia Económica Año XVIII otoño-invierno 2000 n. 3 pp. 485--523