The Municipal Store’
Adaptation and Development in the Retail Markets of Nineteenth-Century Urban Lancashire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8419998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Hodson (Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 94-114 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00076799800000340 |
| OpenAlex | W2083872674 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This essay employs a case study of Lancashire's nineteeth-century retail markets in order to reassess the impact of economic and urban growth on retail forms. By revealing the resilience of markets in a county which experienced some of the most intense industrial and urban development of the period, it challenges those models of retail change which present an inverse relationship between economic and urban change on the one hand, and ‘traditional’ modes of retailing on the other. It examines the ways in which the region's markets responded to the new problems and opportunities generated by their changing physical, economic and social environment, focusing in particular on their management, their trade and their temporal and physical organisation. It reveals how, contrary to undergoing displacement by ‘fixed’ forms of shop retailing, markets adopted some of their characteristics and evolved as modern, profitable, daily, undercover ‘municipal stores’
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| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |