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Industrial districts and manufacturing linkages: Chicago's printing industry, 1880–1950 1
Author(s) -
LEWIS ROBERT
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.014
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1468-0289
pISSN - 0013-0117
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00445.x
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , bankruptcy , factory (object oriented programming) , government (linguistics) , capital (architecture) , manufacturing , business , economy , regional science , economic geography , geography , economics , marketing , archaeology , finance , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , programming language
In this article, it is argued that the North American industrial district was a metropolitan‐centred one that drew extensively on regional resources, skills, capital, and information. The Chicago printing industry between 1880 and 1950 is used as a case study to demonstrate that industries were linked at various scales: from the factory district to the metropolis and the region. A wide range of sources (manufacturing censuses, government reports, industrial journals, bankruptcy records) is employed to establish how the intricate set of relations and transactions formed metropolitan industrial districts.