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Fotavtryck i bomullsfälten: Den industriella revolutionen som miljöbelastningsförskjutning (2005)

Polhem: Tidskrift för Teknikhistoria
Volume: 23
Pages: 11--24

Publication Date: 2005
Edition Details: Part of a series on industrial technology and the environment.
Language: Swedish

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Technology Textiles Cotton and cotton industry Marxism 19th century Great Britain

Footprints in the cotton fields The Industrial Revolution as environmental load displacement This paper summarizes an attempt to quantify the global exchange of (natural) space and (labour) time underlying the economic success of the British textile industry in the mid-nineteenth century. Using historical statistics on inputs of land and labour embodied in raw materials and finished manufactures, estimates are made of the amount of British land and labour saved by displacing fibre extraction to North America. By comparing inputs of land and labour in the textile exports with those in some imported commodities such as raw cotton and wheat, and juxtaposing these inputs with exchange rates, estimates are also made of unequal exchange. Using such methods, it is possible to bring together Marxist concerns with unequal exchange of labour time, on one hand, with the more recent concern with ecological footprints, on the other.

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Description Labor and environmental analysis of the industrial revolution.

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Article Mårald, Erland; Nordlund, Christer (2005) Inledning: Tema Teknik och Miljö. Polhem: Tidskrift för Teknikhistoria (p. 5). unapi

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