Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

8 Modern Business Geography of New England, has a climate that tends to make vigorous work a pleasure; therefore the workers are far more efficient than they would be in regions of monotonous cold or heat.. A weaver in Mexico rarely tends more than two looms, while in Massachusetts it is com- mon to tend six or eight. Why cotton factories are located near a labor supply. Its location in the part of the country where labor is abundant gives Fall River still another advantage. Under present conditions a cotton manu- facturing plant needs every class of labor, from the highly skilled to the unskilled, from the expert mechanic who cares for the machinery or the chemist who directs the bleaching and dyeing to the opera- tive who simply watches a group of looms and stops them to tie the broken threads. New England lies nearer to Europe than does any other part of the United States, and it became settled earlier than other regions. Hence, when factories began to spring up, there were more people in New England from whom to obtain high-grade workers. Some of the descendants of the first mill-workers are now owners, superintendents, managers, and foremen of the mills. Also because of its location, Fall River is able to draw labor from among the European immigrants who enter America through the neighboring ports of New York and Boston. Thus among the people of Fall River are many of English, Scotch, or Irish descent whose ancestors for generations have been engaged in manufacturing cotton either in the Old World or the New. Much of the unskilled labor is done by French Canadians from the province of Quebec. Recently machinery has become more and more automatic, and a kind of labor even less skilled is employed ; for example, that furnished by newly arrived Poles, Finns, and Greeks. The employment of labor of this kind carries with it a disadvantage; for the unskilled laborers of the factory towns often lower the whole standard of the community. Fall River is not alone in benefiting from the advantages of a posi- tion near the eastern seacoast. The large supply of labor helps the cotton business of neighboring towns too, and in fact the whole manu- facturing business of New England. Geographical conditions that influence manufacturing. Thus New England shows us how manufacturing in general, and cotton manufacturing in particular, may be influenced by geographical con- ditions, — glaciation, harbors, climate, and location. Due to gla- ciation, there are waterfalls and rapids that can be used for power, and lakes for filters and reservoirs. The harbors render trans- portation easy. The climate is good for manufacturing and is

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