Significant Post-War Changes in the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Industry

Taylor, George William

doi:10.9783/9781512818987

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Urban Weakening and Suburban Growth1

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“…Suburban growth was heavily concentrated in relatively low-skill-demanding textile sectors, spinning and within knits, underwear (long-johns) and seamless hose. These sectors were ready candidates for peripheral development and for product standardization, as wage differentials become critical competitively when neither product nor process are variables (Taylor, 1929(Taylor, ,1931. Given this character, such development is itself radically vulnerable to extra-regional wage-rate competition.…”

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“…For the same reasons that there was a gradualness to southern penetration of staple cotton markets, knitting development was halting until the 1920s. However, in the last half of that decade, installations of hosiery machinery trended heavily toward southern sites, posing a critical extra-regional challenge to Philadelphia's most successful twentieth century sector (Taylor, 1929(Taylor, , 1931. Nonetheless, regional outmigration was not viewed as a solution to the looming accumulation crisis.…”

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