The British Industrial Decline
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Author | : Michael Dintenfass |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134692617 |
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The decline of British Industry in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period is the subject of major concern to economic and modern British historians. This book sets out the present state of the discussion and introduces new directions in which the debate about the British decline is now proceeding: Among other themes, the book examines: * the role of the service sector alongside manufacturing * the distinctiveness of the British regions * the state's role in the British decline including an analysis of its responsibility for the maintenance and modernization of infrastructure * the association of aristocratic values with entrepreneurial vitality * how British historians have discussed success and failure, with a critique of the literature of decline.
Author | : David Edgerton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1996-06-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521577786 |
Download Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The place of science and technology in the British economy and society is widely seen as critical to our understanding of the British 'decline'. There is a long tradition of characterising post-1870 Britain by its lack of enthusiasm for science and by the low social status of the practitioners of technology. David Edgerton examines these assumptions, analysing the arguments for them and pointing out the different intellectual traditions from which they arise. Drawing on a wealth of statistical data, he argues that British innovation and technical training were much stronger than is generally believed, and that from 1870 to 1970 Britain's innovative record was comparable to that of Germany. This book is a comprehensive study of the history of British science and technology in relation to economic performance. It will be of interest to scientists and engineers as well as economic historians, and will be invaluable to students approaching the subject for the first time.
Author | : Michael Dintenfass |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2006-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134937482 |
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The first synthesis of Britain's long-term economic performance in more than a decade, this book examines why British economic growth has failed to keep pace with the performance of the other advanced industrial economies since 1870.
Author | : Jean-Pierre Dormois |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : P. F. Clarke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1997-12-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521563178 |
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The theme of British economic decline is inescapable in contemporary debates about Britain's economic performance and sense of national identity. Understanding Decline is a serious contribution to an important argument, approached in a way that is accessible not only to the specialist academic market but to students of economics, history and politics. Barry Supple, to whom the volume is dedicated, when Professor of Economic History at Cambridge was concerned with various aspects of this historical problem. Indeed, his 1993 Presidential Address to the Economic History Society, 'Fear of failing', already a classic, is reprinted here as a highly effective keynote essay. Other essays pick up this theme in diverse but essentially unified ways, seeking to assess British economic performance in different ways over the past two centuries. They include case-studies through which the reality of decline can be explored, while differing perceptions of decline are examined in a number of essays dealing with ideas and policy issues.
Author | : Michael Dintenfass |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Coal trade |
ISBN | : 0814205690 |
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Managing Industrial Decline examines the dramatic decline of the British coal industry through the lens of comparative business history, challenging the prevailing belief that the industry's decline was due primarily to global economic factors and instead demonstrating that entrepreneurial failings of individual coal firms contributed significantly to the problem. Through a comparative analysis of company histories, Dintenfass shows how the full range of business operations at British coal firms, including labor management policies, technological choices, and marketing practices, affected their performance. The histories of individual firms demonstrate that the managements could improve productivity, increase sale prices, and sustain profitability, even as the coal trade succumbed to cyclical depression and secular decline. According to Dintenfass, comparisons between the individual firms and the regional coal industries to which they belonged show that neighboring firms were slow to introduce the modest innovations that the successful firms pioneered. Since there were few barriers to the implementation of these strategies, it appears that Britain's coal masters miscalculated their costs and benefits, contributing to the problem by failing to adopt inexpensive and accessible second-best solutions to production and commercial problems. Managing Industrial Decline, breaks new ground in the field of business history and restores entrepreneurship to its proper place in the analysis of industrial decline.
Author | : Roy A. Church |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1995-09-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521557702 |
Download The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A concise 1995 review of the strengths and weaknesses of the British motor industry during the one hundred years since its foundation.
Author | : Ron L. Martin |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Essays on regional disparities in economic recession due to industrial restructuring in the UK, 1945-1983 - considers de industralization trends, the division of labour, industrial investment, and impact of monopolys and the international division of labour; discusses the effect of technological change on employment opportunity for the woman worker; examines industrial policy, especially regarding public enterprise and urban areas; reviews prospects for industrial development of service sectors in postindustrial society. Graphs, references.
Author | : Jasper Shahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Science, Technology and British Industrial "decline" in the 19th Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Dintenfass |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780415054652 |
Download The Decline of Industrial Britain, 1870-1980 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first synthesis of Britain's long-term economic performance in more than a decade, this book examines why British economic growth has failed to keep pace with the performance of the other advanced industrial economies since 1870.