The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870-1914
Author: Sidney Pollard
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
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A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870-1914 (Volume 1)
Author: Gordon H. Boyce
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2024-03-25
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1802075550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are not well understood today. Yet, these vessels transported in bulk essential minerals and ores, grains, timber, and other commodities and played a vital role in creating the modern global economy. While the histories of some individual tramp firms have been written, this book uses personal correspondence and surviving company records to chart the development of the entire industry - the largest in the world- during a period of transformational technical change. Who were the bold, risk-takers who founded tramp firms? How did they mobilise the resources needed to enter this dynamic sector, build immense companies, and accumulate vast fortunes? Why did others fail? This study reveals how executives learned ‘the art’ of managing tramps and developed strategic networking skills. Tramp shipping resonates with many of today’s high-growth industries: it was an information intensive, high stress operation that required rapid - sometimes instinctive - decision-making within a turbulent market. Building business networks was supported by a distinctive culture that streamlined communication. This innovative study places information, knowledge, learning, culture, and communication at the centre of the analysis in order to transport readers into the minds of those fascinating entrepreneurs who helped build the modern world.
The World Shipbuilding Industry
Author: Daniel Todd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1000639797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1985, presents a comprehensive overview of the world shipbuilding industry. It contrasts the conditions which foster its development in newly-industrialised countries such as Japan, South Korea and Brazil with the problems leading to its decline in Western Europe and North America. The book discusses the supply and demand factors peculiar to shipbuilding and notes the inherent instability of the industry due to the conditions placed upon it by the economic environment. Reactions to this instability are examined from the point of view of both shipbuilding enterprises and governments. The book concludes by assessing current trends and discussing likely future developments. It is shown that much will depend on shipping costs, industrial organisation and the level of state support.
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Simon Ville
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2017-10-18
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1786949318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume tackles the history of Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century by breaking it down into six regions:- Northeast England; Southeast England; Southwest England; Northwest England; Scotland; and Ireland. The intent is to determine the different economic, social, and geographic factors that contribute to the varied rates of rise and decline of Shipbuilding across the United Kingdom, rather than view the nation’s shipbuilding history as a singular narrative, which risks omitting the complexity of each region. Each region has been ascribed an author, and each author seeks to establish the quantitative and qualitative nature of output in their region, assessing individual factors of production, the character of the enterprises, and the nature of the market.
The Shipbuilding Industry
Author: L. A. Ritchie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780719038051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work aims to facilitate the study of the shipbuilding industry by making available information on the present location of shipbuilding archives. The brief histories of about 200 businesses are offered.
Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914
Author: William D. Wray
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9780674576650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Industrial Capitalism Since The Industrial Revolution
Author: Roger Lloyd-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1134221851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Development of Trade Unionism in Great Britain and Germany, 1880-1914
Author: Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-06-14
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1351815245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The tide of democracy
Author: Alastair Reid
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1847797601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive study examines British shipbuilding and industrial relations from 1870 to 1950, addressing economic, social and political history to provide an holistic approach to industry, trade-unionism and the early history of the Labour Party. Examining the impact of new machinery, of independent rank-and-file movements and of craft and trade unions, The Tide of Democracy provides an authoritative account of industrial action in shipyards in the period and their effect on the birth and development of the Labour Party. This volume is clearly presented, elegantly written and suffused with a distinctly human touch which brings the technical material to life. Unique in the combined attention it gives to Scottish and English history, and drawing upon an impressive range of primary sources, this volume will be indispensable for specialist researchers, undergraduates and postgraduate students.
Rapid Growth and Relative Decline
Author: M. Setterfield
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1996-12-17
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0230375871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo high rates of economic growth create conditions favourable to their own maintenance? Or can a period of high growth 'sow the seeds of its own destruction'? This book addresses these questions by conceiving growth and structural change as path dependent processes. Methodological, theoretical and empirical insights are combined in an extended model of cumulative causation, which shows how endogenously induced technological and institutional changes may cause the dynamics of a period of high growth to break down. This casts new light on the debate over Britain's economic decline.
