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Book Synopsis The British Industrial Decline by : Michael Dintenfass
Download or read book The British Industrial Decline written by Michael Dintenfass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out the present state of the discussion of the decline in British industry and introduces new directions in which the debate is now proceeding.
Book Synopsis The Decline of Industrial Britain by : Michael Dintenfass
Download or read book The Decline of Industrial Britain written by Michael Dintenfass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis What We Have Lost by : James Hamilton-Paterson
Download or read book What We Have Lost written by James Hamilton-Paterson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Hamilton-Paterson turns his literary and analytical skills to the wider picture of Britain's lost industrial and technological civilisation.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry by : Roy A. Church
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry written by Roy A. Church and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise 1995 review of the strengths and weaknesses of the British motor industry during the one hundred years since its foundation.
Book Synopsis The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870 by : M.W. Kirby
Download or read book The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870 written by M.W. Kirby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1981.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930 by : Alun C. Davies
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930 written by Alun C. Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.
Book Synopsis Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970 by : David Edgerton
Download or read book Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970 written by David Edgerton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :Bernard Elbaum Publisher :Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :330 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Decline of the British Economy by : Bernard Elbaum
Download or read book The Decline of the British Economy written by Bernard Elbaum and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on specific industries and issues, Elbaum examines the decline of the British economy in terms of its structural rigidity and historic changes in the world economy.
Book Synopsis British Cotton Textiles: Maturity and Decline by : David Higgins
Download or read book British Cotton Textiles: Maturity and Decline written by David Higgins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the decline of the cotton textiles industry, which defined Britain as an industrial nation, from its peak in the late nineteenth century to the state of the industry at the end of the twentieth century. Focusing on the owners and managers of cotton businesses, the authors examine how they mobilised financial resources; their attitudes to industry structure and technology; and their responses to the challenges posed by global markets. The origins of the problems which forced the industry into decline are not found in any apparent loss of competitiveness during the long nineteenth century but rather in the disastrous reflotation after the First World War. As a consequence of these speculations, rationalisation and restructuring became more difficult at the time when they were most needed, and government intervention led to a series of partial solutions to what became a process of protracted decline. In the post-1945 period, the authors show how government policy encouraged capital withdrawal rather than encouraging the investment needed for restructuring. The examples of corporate success since the Second World War – such as David Alliance and his Viyella Group – exploited government policy, access to capital markets, and closer relationships with retailers, but were ultimately unable to respond effectively to international competition and the challenges of globalisation. The chapters in this book were originally published in Business History and Accounting, Business and Financial History.
Book Synopsis The Decline of British Industry: Its Cause and Remedy by : Fedor Aronovich Rotshtein
Download or read book The Decline of British Industry: Its Cause and Remedy written by Fedor Aronovich Rotshtein and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Understanding Decline by : P. F. Clarke
Download or read book Understanding Decline written by P. F. Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Decline of British Industrial Hegemony by : Indrajit Ray
Download or read book The Decline of British Industrial Hegemony written by Indrajit Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through two World Wars and the Great Depression, this book explores the turbulent history of colonial Indian industry in the period immediately prior to independence. Focusing on five major industries in Bengal - coal mining, iron-smelting, jute manufacturing, paper making and tea plantation – the book looks at the impact of the war efforts on production, employment and capital: some industries experienced rapid growth due to additional investment, others suffered due to the dislocation of markets. Moreover, by drawing lessons from the war economy (especially the dearth of various essential commodities including war materials), the colonial government took up various measures in the inter-war period to promote India’s domestic industries for the first time. Additionally, the book also argues that many of the expatriate firms in India became financially weak because of the Depression which paved the way for the ‘Indianisation’ of corporate houses. These elements were significant factors in the decline of British industrial hegemony in India and aided the de-colonisation process which followed. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those with wider interests in decolonisation, industrial history and the first half of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis From Empire to Europe by : Geoffrey Owen
Download or read book From Empire to Europe written by Geoffrey Owen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of British industry, Owen argues that it has undergone a transformation which has modernized the UK economy. He demonstrates the influence of institutions and policies on the industries that are likely to succeed.
Book Synopsis The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals) by : Peter Dunnett
Download or read book The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals) written by Peter Dunnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries. Rather than blaming labour and management, as has frequently been the case, the author argues that the decline can be traced back to poor government policy. Tracing how, when and where government policies affected the industry, the book examines policies clearly directed at the motor industry, such as transport legislation and motor taxation. In addition the work considers the consequences of many policies which were targeted only indirectly at the motor industry as the author argues that whilst government policy may have succeeded in its aim, e.g. improving employment for the balance of payments, the motor industry may have suffered as a consequence. Written in non-technical language, the reissue will be of interest to those concerned with post-war UK economic development, the UK motor industry in particular and the history of government policy in general.
Book Synopsis Whatever Happened to Britain? by : John Eatwell
Download or read book Whatever Happened to Britain? written by John Eatwell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides not only a clear exposition of Britain's economic difficulties, but also an introduction to economic theories and a framework for understanding them.
Book Synopsis Where is Britain Going? (Routledge Revivals) by : Leon Trotsky
Download or read book Where is Britain Going? (Routledge Revivals) written by Leon Trotsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1926, Where is Britain Going? focuses on the historical factors and circumstances which were to define Britain’s development in the midst of social unrest at that time. The book considers the future of Britain in an age when the working classes were being driven into confrontation with the state under the impact of the world crisis of capitalism. Writing over eighty years ago, Trotsky concentrates on the decline of British imperialism in his analysis of the Bolshevik Revolution. In a brilliant polemic that exposes all the treachery of the Labour leaders in the year before the General strike, he recalls the revolutionary traditions of the working class and draws on the historical lessons of the English Civil War and Chartism. Rejecting the parliamentary road and stripping bare the pretensions of Fabian socialism, Where is Britain going? outlines perspectives of revolution which continue to retain their validity.
Book Synopsis The Decline Of British Industry: Its Cause And Remedy: Being An Essay On A Neglected Aspect Of The Fiscal Question by : Fedor Aronovich Rotshtein
Download or read book The Decline Of British Industry: Its Cause And Remedy: Being An Essay On A Neglected Aspect Of The Fiscal Question written by Fedor Aronovich Rotshtein and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An economic analysis of the decline of British industry and proposed solutions. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.