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Recollections of William Arnold

出版	Northamptonshire Record Society, 2014
ISBN	09012757199780901275714
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_AXYoQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"During the Great War there appeared in Northampton a slim volume of reminiscences that is a unique published record of a successful footwear manufacturer's life in Britain in the last sixty years of the long Victorian period. The subject of this book is James William Arnold (always known as William Arnold), who rose from the shoe workers' ranks to occupy a position of authority and respect in the county town's premier industry: for a working man born into a poor home to attain success as a manufacturer was unusual; despite popular assumptions to the contrary. He belonged to that generation of influential manufacturers that fashioned the industry during its final transition between 1887 and 1905 from a handwork-dominated outwork trade to a fully mechanised, factory-based industry. The production and retail structure introduced at that time was to last into the 1950s, when further seminal change overtook the industry driven by a new set of economic circumstances." --