Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1976-09-02
Category : History
ISBN :
This book is the first history of the British machine-tool industry during a time when it played a crucial part in the transformation of the British economy.
Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1351959565
At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, this study charts the wider fortunes of this vital part of the manufacturing sector. Taking a chronological approach, the book explores how during the late nineteenth century the industry developed a reputation for excellence throughout the world, before the challenges of two world wars necessitated drastic changes and reorganisations. Despite meeting these challenges and emerging with confidence into the post-war market place, the British machine tool industry never regained its pre-eminent position, and increasingly lost ground to foreign competition. By using the example of Alfred Herbert Ltd to illuminate the broader economic and business history of the British machine tool industry, this study not only provides a valuable insight into British manufacturing, but also contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding Britain's alleged decline as a manufacturing nation.
Author : Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351815245
This stimulating collection of essays by distinguished British, American, Australian and German scholars, originally published in 1985, offers a picture of the upsurge of New Unionism and the growth of old unions, and looks at the severe setbacks which occurred in the labour movements of Britain and Germany between the 1880s and the First World War. Labour history is seen from a European perspective and special emphasis is placed on the role of the state in Britain and Germany in its desire to contain and suppress trade union activity by law or force. Insights are provided into the political allegiances of the unions and their members to the parties of the working class and the state.
Author : Charles Harvey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2024-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1040122566
Labour and Business in Modern Britain (1989) examines the history of labour relations in British business using important empirical research. The study of ‘labour process’ and the dynamics of the labour market are key, and each chapter stands alone as an investigation of an important episode, an important industry, or an important theoretical question refracted through an historical problem.
Author : John F. Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000636275
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on different forms of organising British industry. With contributions on the strengths and weaknesses of the holding company structure, government organisation of industry during war time, the effects of forms of organisation on innovation, and debates over the suitability of international comparisons, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1134221789
The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present a challenging and distinctive economic history of modern and contemporary Britain. The book is intended for undergraduate courses on the economic history of modern Britain within history, economic and social history, economic history and economic degree schemes, and economic theory courses.
Author : D. N. McCloskey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134558279
The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britain's own resources were consistently more productive, more resilient and more successful than is normally assumed. And if the economy's achievement was considerable, the influence on it of external factors (trade, international competition, policy) were much less significant than is normally supposed. The book is structured as follows: Part One: The Method of Historical Economics Part Two: Enterprise in Late Victorian Britain Part Three: Britain in the World Economy, 1846-1913.
Author : Jose Harris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 014194157X
The late nineteenth century and Edwardian era, suggests Jose Harris in this book, represent a sharp break with the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. Indeed, despite the intense upheavals of two world wars, it was the beliefs, social structures and oppositional forces established between 1870 and 1914 which dominated British life right up until the 1960s.
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107038464
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1316061167
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.
