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The Location of the English Shoe Industry

1965; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 47; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/04353684.1965.11879283

1468-0467

Harald Rydberg,

Wine Industry and Tourism

Lancaster district. With the decline of the cotton industry in this area after the first world war factories making felt shoes and slippers moved into the empty cotton mills and partly solved the unemployment problem. The manufacturing of footwear beyond the local need has a long tradition in Northampton and adjoining areas. In Leicester it is younger but still about a hundred years old. In these respects these areas can be compared with the Pirmasens district in West Germany, with Eastern Massachusetts, and with the Orebro-Kumla district in Sweden. The industry is generally concentrated to few areas in the countries: location coefficient in Great Britain 1935: 0.58 (Florence 1948 Table IVB), in USA 1929: 0.75 (Hoover 1937 Table 41), and in Sweden 1938: 0.51. Besides the high degree of location there are many other similarities between shoe making in different countries: the processes and the localizing factors are the same and so are the general stages of development although they may have begun at different times in various countries. Against this background the evolution of the English shoe industry will be studied. The aim is to find the location factors and their effect under different production stages with different contacts between producer and consumer. The most interesting areas in this respect are Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, and the Norwich and London districts. The stages in production.