- 1981 edition, 221 pages
- Published by Alliance Textiles Ltd, NZ
- Hardcover with dust jacket, brown boards
- Good plus condition, some shelf wear, rubbing, fading to dust jacket.
A Centennial History of Alliance Textiles Limited and its predecessors. Illustrated and index.
Alliance Textiles decided to mark the centenary of its Oamaru mill with the publication of a different type of history. The Company commissioned historian Gavin McLean to write an independent history. Spinning Yarns is the result of his researches - concise, candid and controversial in places.
Spinning Yarns surveys the history of the Oamaru, Timaru, and Milton mills. Despite offen sketchy records, it is possible to document some of the trials and tribulations of nineteenth century small town capitalism and the process of gradual evolution that resulted in the present multi-million dollar group of comapnies. Yet there is also considerable continuity and it is appropriate that in a period of dramatic and every increasing change, a moment should be taken to reflect upon the lessons of a century's endeavour.
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