Cotton Manufacturing Industry in Mexico
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A two-page 1898 trade article summarizing a British Foreign Office report by Lionel Carden on the Mexican cotton manufacturing industry. It covers the history of the industry from pre-conquest times, the 1830 bank for supplying machinery, tariff protection and smuggling, and 1896 statistics on mills, looms, spindles, workers and output. It also discusses machinery types, power sources, working hours, wages, profits, the effect of silver depreciation, and the implications for British cotton exports.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 15, 1898
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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