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James Montgomery on Factory Management, 1832

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

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Abstract

In the manner of the Creole tradesmen of Louisiana, whose lagniappe to their patrons is legendary, the Editor offers a similar bonus to readers of the Review. Instead of trifling presents added to a purchase, however, our lagniappe will be notes and documents illustrative of the evolution of business enterprise.

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Lagniappe
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Business History Review , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , Summer 1968 , pp. 219 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1968

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References

1 Navin, Thomas R., The Whitin Machine Works since 1831: A Textile Machinery Company in an Industrial Village (Cambridge, Mass., 1950), 30.CrossRefGoogle ScholarGibb, George S., The Saco-Lowell Shops: Textile Machinery Building in New England, 1813–1949 (Cambridge, Mass., 1950), 749nCrossRefGoogle Scholar, calls Montgomery “well known as the author of the two most famous treatises of the day on cotton machinery,” and states that his works “are prolific sources of historical information about English and American machines and techniques of the 1830's.” At one point in his The Genesis of Modern Management: A Study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain (Cambridge, Mass., 1965)Google Scholar, Sidney Pollard castigates Montgomery for being as “banal as the worst of the books on similar topics are today” (207), but he later acknowledges Montgomery and Andrew Ure as the best books to appear on the subject of management in the cotton textile industry (254).

2 The present excerpt is drawn from the copy of the first edition held by the Kress Library of Business and Economics of Harvard University (209–224). Thanks are due Mr. Kenneth Carpenter, Associate Curator, for bringing this original edition to our attention. The second edition (Glasgow, J. Niven, Jr., 1833) is entitled The Theory and Practice of Cotton Spinning; or The Carding and Spinning Master's Assistant. The third edition bears the same title as the second (Glasgow, J. Niven, Jr., 1836). Montgomery also authored a pocket-sized book entitled, The Cotton Spinner's Manual; or A Compendium of the Principles of Cotton Spinning (Glasgow, J. Niven, Jr., 1835).