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Author_Sarah Dietz
Black Dyke Mills
Bradford Men
Bradford Mills
briggs
Briggs Brothers
Briggs Posselt Partnership
British Foreign Investment
British industrial enterprise case study
brothers
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Charles Whitehead
direct
economic protectionism nineteenth century
English Foremen
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foreign
foreign direct investment
Foreign Factory Owners
Free Standing Company
Gazeta Warszawska
gods
industrial history Poland
labour migration Europe
marki
Marki Enterprise
Marki Firm
Marki Venture
model industrial communities
National Biography
Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe
partnership
playground
Polish Soviet War
posselt
Real Product Innovation
Russian Poland
Social Overhead Investment
textile manufacturing technology
venture
War Time Losses
Worsted Manufacture
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781472441386
- Weight: 725g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing upon an impressive range of international sources, this book explores the late-nineteenth century partnership between Bradford worsted manufacturers the Briggs brothers and the German merchant Ernst Posselt, and their subsequent foreign direct investment in a modern factory and workers’ community at Marki, near Warsaw in Poland. Protectionism and increasing foreign competition are discussed, among many complex economic pressures on British industry, as likely catalysts for this enterprise and the general historiography of the Polish lands is explored to reveal a climate of extraordinary opportunity for well-capitalised foreign industrialists in this period. British, Polish and German press and archival documents, as well as Russian police and factory inspectors’ reports reveal the everyday experience of Polish factory workers and British consular correspondence provides fascinating insight into the machinations of the entrepreneurs and Warsaw’s cosmopolitan business community. Through the development and domination of market and raw materials sources, this venture is shown to have monopolised worsted manufacture in the Russian Empire, using state of the art technology to create, and modern marketing techniques to promote, its product range and evolving image. Marki was described in 1886 as ’a second edition of Saltaire’ and latterly as ’the Polish Bournville or Port Sunlight’, thus aspects of British and Polish social history are compared to assess the efficacy of introducing the model-community concept, in combination with a radical employment policy, to less industrially-developed Poland. The experiences of an expatriate community of skilled Yorkshire foremen and their instrumentality in diffusing British industrial technology throughout the Russian Empire are described. Against a backdrop of political instability and social upheaval, which dramatically impacted on business behaviour after 1905 and particularly during the interwar period of
Sarah Dietz is a textile specialist who has received awards from the Royal Society of Arts and the Worshipful Company of Weavers in association with the Textile Institute. Following a successful career in Yorkshire’s wool industry, her PhD from the University of Bradford was shortlisted for the Herman E. Krooss Prize in 2014. She is currently working as an independent researcher with a particular interest in the shared social and industrial history of Britain and Poland.
