The Industrial Revolution – which here will mean the mechanization of textile production in Britain between the 1760s and the…

Instead of a creation of Western Europe, the limited liability company was a product of global competition and exchange. It was inextricable from the histories of powerful companies based in Beirut. Thus, to fully understand the history of the corporation, one must also venture outside of Western Europe and look at global patterns fueled by economic and ontological shifts in banking and finance.

The Lowell System, also known as the Waltham-Lowell system, was a vertically integrated system of textile production used in nineteenth-century…