Abstract
Technological change and product life cycle concepts can be used to explain the concentration of cotton textile production in Southeastern England during the industry's period of rapid innovation in machinery and machine tool design. Boston was the center for an agglomeration of high technology industries that were attracted by each other and the local resource pool of skilled mechanics and entrepreneurs. The movement of the textile industry to the Southeast, which took place after 1880, is linked to technological change in the product cycle that substituted unskilled labor for skilled labor and high technology inputs. The phrase Yankee ingenuity has become a part of the English language. If England no longer holds all the good mechanics in the United States, there was a time when she came so near it that the term New England mechanic had a very definite meaning over the whole country [Roe, 1916, p. 109].
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