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Olot, Barcelona and à vila and the introduction of the Arkwright technology to Catalonia

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This article clarifies the means whereby the Catalan cotton industry attained independence from imported yarn in a critical stage of its development between the 1790s and the War of Independence. It does so by tracking the origins, and early diffusion, of the Arkwright technology in Catalonia in the form of a machine-making and spinning company formed between an Olotí stocking frame knitter, a Barcelona silver-smith and an à vila trained machine-maker. The spinning and weaving initiatives of the Company inform on the circumstances conditioning the Catalan industry's incorporation of the spinning processes. Light is also thrown on the character of machine-making at this stage of Catalan industrialization in a pilot-enterprise anxious to restrict technical diffusion.

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  • Thomson, J. K. J., 2003. "Olot, Barcelona and à vila and the introduction of the Arkwright technology to Catalonia," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 21(2), pages 297-334, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:reveco:v:21:y:2003:i:02:p:297-334_01
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    1. Julie Marfany, 2010. "Is it still helpful to talk about proto‐industrialization? Some suggestions from a Catalan case study," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 63(4), pages 942-973, November.

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