The Spread of Technology through Commercial Networks in the Nineteenth Century : Foreign Merchant-entrepreneurs and Calabrian Sericulture amid Changes and Conflicts
Part of : The Historical Review ; Vol.7, No.1, 2010, pages 253-275
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In the first half of the 1800s, silk throwing in Calabria expanded and was technologically renovated due to the contribution provided by foreign labour. This favoured the arrival of foreign merchant-entrepreneurs, who brought further expansion and new changes to methods of production. Those changes, even if they were not always received with enthusiasm by the local population, strongly influenced Calabrian silk throwing, encouraging local mill owners to imitate the example of the foreigners. Silk throwing grew and was renewed mainly in the Reggio area, a region close to Sicily and to the port of Messina. The proximity to Messina and its port, particularly active in the 1800s, constituted a unique advantage for silk throwing in the region.
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856:https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/4046, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.264
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