製糸資本の勃興 : 蚕糸業再編期の開明社

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While trades in the French silk market declined after the French Panic of 1882, the U. S. market expanded during the 1880s. Power looms were already in wide use in the U. S. silk textile industry, and demand for larger bundles of even-quality silk was rising. Japanese reelers had to produce large bundles of uniform Filature (machine-reeled silk) for export to the U. S.. In order to do this, the Japanese sericulture needed capitalistic reconstruction. Kaimeisha, in Suwa, led this reconstruction. Until the French Panic of 1882, Kaimeisha had been producing silk to be exported to the French market and had depended entirely on wholesale merchants for quality control. After the shock of the panic, by the introduction of cooperative re-reeling, inspection of silk, and competition-oriented organization, Kaimeisha succeeded in producing large bundles of uniform Filature, which they labeled with their own trade mark. This trade mark was acknowledged in the U. S. market, and Kaimeisha Filature were exported in large quantities. Other machine-reelers followed suit, and sericulture progressed into the machine-reeling stage, that is, the capitalistic stage.
政治経済学・経済史学会の論文
1996-01-20