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Growth, profit and technological choice: the case of the Lancashire cotton textile industry / Steven Toms -- Ring and mule spinning in the nineteenth century: a technological perspective / Roger Holden -- Industrial relations and technical change: profits, wages and costs in the Lancashire cotton industry, 1880-1914 / Stephen Procter and Steven Toms -- Capital ownership, capital structure and capital markets: financial constraints and decline in the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1880-1965 / David Higgins and Steven Toms -- Quiet successes and loud failures: the UK textile industries in the interwar years / Sue Bowden and David Higgins -- The decline of the UK textile industry: the terminal years 1945-2003 / Allan Ormerod.