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

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Cotton 10 stimulating to man, and the location causes the labor supply to be abundant. Where cotton goods are manufactured. Some of the cotton used in your home or in your clothes was probably imported. The United States normally makes only a little more than a quarter of the world’s supply of cotton goods and consumes many varieties that she does not make. Great Britain and Japan each manufacture about one eighth; China, one tenth; France, India, Germany, and Italy, each one twenti- eth. Half of the remainder is manu- factured in the other countries of western Europe, and half in the rest of the world (Fig. 13). Figure 13 is based simply on quantity. If quality be taken into account, and if the value of cotton manufactures be made the basis of a table, the United States and the European countries stand higher than appears above ; the Asiatic coun- tries, being beginners, stand lower. In the United States the northeast, especially New England, which has long manufactured cotton, makes the best kinds of cotton cloth, while the South, where the industry is newer, turns out chiefly coarse varieties. This is partly because there is more efficient labor in Europe and New England, and partly because when the manufacture of cotton first begins it is easier to make the cheaper kinds which do not require such expensive machinery. The making of cotton goods by hand. Hand methods of making cotton goods, as we have seen, are still employed in many parts of the world ; for example, in the interior of China and India and among the Japanese mountains. Most of the backward sections make no more than enough cloth for local use. In some regions, such as India and Japan, the thread is mostly spun in factories and is then sold to the weavers, who make the cloth by hand. Switzerland, central France, and Ireland, however, have a highly advanced cotton indus- try which produces hand-made goods of a quite different kind. These consist of laces, embroideries, and cloths of such delicate texture, graceful pattern, or lasting quality that they are much prized by people in distant regions. They have given rise to an important trade.

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