"Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint - critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded...

Pre-Famine Ireland is a byword for market failure and path dependence. Production of flax yarn and linen cloth was highly regulated and coordinated by the market rather than by firms. Contemporary political economists suggested that these institutional features provided evidence of...

Die Öffnung des Ostens, der Bürgerkrieg in Jugoslawien sowie der zunehmende Preisdruck auf die westeuropäische Textil- und Bekleidungsindustrie haben in beiden Teilen des alten Kontinents sowohl in der Produktion als auch im Handel mit textilen Gütern einen tiefgreifenden Strukturwandel...