caa a22 4500 38810001X CHVBK 20180307125315.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3116101 doi S000768050007330X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3116101 Zakim Michael MICHAEL ZAKIM teaches history at Tel Aviv University. A Ready-Made Business: The Birth of the Clothing Industry in America [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Zakim] This article recounts the birth of the clothing industry in the United States after 1815. It contends, in contrast to recent historical literature, that the clothing business was at the center of the American experience of industrialization. This was not because ready-made clothing was a novel commodity. Nor was it because of new production technologies, social innovations, or legal structures adopted by the industry. Rather, clothing entrepreneurs were significant because they integrated several important markets—a trans-Atlantic trade in cloth, an urban trade in labor, and a market for manufactured goods in the interior regions of the United States. This helped to make the ready-made clothing business among the country's largest industries by 1850. Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1999 Business History Review Cambridge University Press 73/1(1999), 61-90 0007-6805 73:1<61 1999 73 BHR https://doi.org/10.2307/3116101 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3116101 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zakim Michael MICHAEL ZAKIM teaches history at Tel Aviv University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business History Review Cambridge University Press 73/1(1999), 61-90 0007-6805 73:1<61 1999 73 BHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge