THE COTTON INDUSTRY
THE COTTON INDUSTRY
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棉花工业
DOI:
10.1111/j.1746-1049.1979.tb00622.x
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Takeo Izumi
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作者:
Takeo Izumi
The modern Japanese cotton industry comprised of the spinning industry and the weaving industry was totally divorced from the traditional production pattern which had existed during the Tokugawa period. It was created as a result of large-scale mechanized plant transfer which in itself is a uniquely capitalistic form of production. After the management failure of a spinning plant with 2,000 mule spindles, previously transferred and powered by water wheels, the beginning of modern plant transfer was marked by the establishment of Osaka Spinning Co.(10,500 spindles) in 1882. Triggered by the success at Osaka Spinning such representative companies in the Japanese cotton industry as Mie Spinning (1886), Kanegafuchi Spinning, Naigai Cotton, Kurashiki Spinning (1887), Settsu Spinning, Amagasaki Spinning (1889), Kishiwada Spinning (1892), Fuji Spinning, Tokyo Gas Spinning (1896), and Osaka Godo Spinning (1900) were established as a result of plant transfer. Consequently, in 1900 when Japanese capitalism was being established, the modern Japanese cotton industry had developed into the largest industry in Japan with 79 companies, 80 plants, 1,135,000 spindles and approximately 3,000 power looms. These spinning plants which were created as a result of transfer relied upon foreign raw cotton (Chinese and Indian cotton, and later American cotton), and many of them came to operate the weaving process simultaneously. They were defined as the" transfer type" of cotton industry as against the cotton industry of the" endogenous type." The latter relied upon domestic raw cotton for either hand spinning or Gara Boki spinning to be made into textiles through hand loom weaving which existed during the Tokugawa period. The transfer type of cotton industry rapidly superseded hand spinning or Gara Boki spinning of the endogenous type and thus the production of domestic raw cotton declined. The weaving industry of the endogenous type, however, continued on a strong footing. It first relied upon imported cotton yarn from Britain and India and later shifted its basis of cotton yarn supply to that supplied by the spinning industry of the transfer type. Furthermore, the endogenous cotton weaving industry was transformed to bring about modernized plants even on a small-scale basis through reliance upon domestic power looms. These were developed due to the technological stimulation caused by the transfer type. Subsequently, it saturated the domestic market and aimed at production for the export market. Consequently, in an examination of transformation and development of technology in the Japanese cotton industry, it is necessary to first discuss the tech-