Cotton-Spinning at Shanghai
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A 1899 article on the new foreign-owned cotton-spinning mills at Shanghai. It traces how the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki opened China to foreign manufacturing, then describes the five mills, their spindle counts, English machinery and the Soy Che mill in detail. It also covers wages, working hours, labor organization, Chinese versus Indian and American raw cotton, yarn counts, import figures and the mills' financial prospects. The focus is industrial and economic, with no weaving instruction.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1899
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
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