TY - JOUR TI - New England's Cotton Mills: How The Records for Their Story Were Discovered AU - Ware, Caroline F. T2 - Business History Review AB - To write the history of an industry in the days before income-tax returns and statistical departments is a baffling task. In the absence of complete records of any sort, — for the industry, for a locality, or even for a single company, — every scrap of evidence becomes a pearl of great price. Every production sheet or worker's contract, every order for machinery or letter about the business, must be used to fill in the blank spaces of the picture. DA - 1926/12// PY - 1926 DO - 10.1017/S0007680500023278 DP - Cambridge University Press VL - 1 IS - 4 SP - 4 EP - 7 LA - en SN - 2326-5140, 1065-9048 ST - New England's Cotton Mills UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/abs/new-englands-cotton-mills-how-the-records-for-their-story-were-discovered/BEAC9F318348C5C3BDE8F08FFAA58432 Y2 - 2021/06/06/16:14:33 KW - Business History and gender ER -