The «Compañía de Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados» was made by the silk crahsmen in 1772, but the General Board of Commerce changed its nature to authoríze. the social classes to take part in share-holders. Although that circumstance favoured its growth, it laid the foundations of its final failure to provoke a serious conflict between the craíitsmen sector, who exercised solé right the managines charges, and the rest ot share-holders, which fundamental discord motive was the loss sufFeted in the com- "lercial crisis of 1779-82. Anyway, the preservation of its prívate documentation has made it possible to analyse iu manufacturíng activity and the result of its business; the commercialization of the silk textile in Cádiz stands ouL... xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-leermas