Download or read book Lancashire in Decline written by Lars G. Sandberg and published by Columbus : Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lancashire in Decline written by Lars G. Sandberg and published by Columbus : Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cotton and Textiles Industry Managing Decline written by John F. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved. Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector. 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.
Download or read book The Last Shift written by Geoffrey Timmins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Decline of the Cotton and Coal Mining Industries of Lancashire written by Lancashire and Merseyside Industrial Development Association and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lancashire Cotton Industry written by Mary B. Rose and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lancashire Cotton Industry written by Sir Sydney John Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Decline of the Cotton and Coal Mining Industries of Lancashire written by Lancashire and Merseyside Industrial Development Association, Manchester, England and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 250 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.
Download or read book Financing Cotton written by Steven Toms and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.
Download or read book The Cotton and Textiles Industry Managing Decline written by John F. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved. Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector. 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.
Download or read book Lancashire written by John K. Walton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capitalism Culture and Decline in Britain 1750 1990 written by W. D. Rubinstein and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britainis an original and controversial analysis of the thesis, made familiar in recent years by Martin J. Wiener, Anthony Sampson, Correlli Barnett, and others, which states that Britain's alleged economic decline since 1870 was the result of deep-seated anti-industrial factors in Britain's culture. Rubinstein argues, from a novel perspective, that Britain was never an industrial, but always a commercial/financial economy whose comparative advantage lay within that area. Rubinstein illustrates that the much-criticized features of Britain's class system, such as the public schools, were actually efficient instruments to enhance this competitive advantage. He closely examines Britain's cultural values and elite structures to demonstrate that these were both rational and modern, arguing that Britain's standard of living has been virtually identical to all countries whose economies have been considered more "successful." Emphasizing the centralimportance of London-based finance and addressing socialism, Keynesianism, and Thatcherism,Capitalism, Culture, and Decline inBritainpresents an original and challenging contribution to this debate.
Download or read book The Decline of Industrial Britain written by Michael Dintenfass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Dintenfass provides a challenging account of Britain's economic performance since 1870. He combines a succinct, clearly-written survey of recent scholarly work in British economic and business history with an original interpretive alternative to the institutionalized accounts of Britain's relative decline. Dintenfass addresses both specifically economic questions and socio-historical questions to place Britain's economic history in its broadest context.
Download or read book Unpicking Gender written by Jutta Schwarzkopf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lancashire cotton industry doubtless counts among the most thoroughly researched industries in Britain. Cotton processing has attracted attention both as the pioneer of industrialization and the harbinger of industrial decline, in many ways typifying the development of the British economy from unchallenged global leader to the demise of large sectors of its manufacturing industry. Yet among the spate of book and articles published about the industry, there is a conspicuous lacuna. Gender, though rarely addressed specifically, permeates the industry's historiography nonetheless. This study tackles head-on the notion of gender within the cotton industry during the period 1880-1914, not so much to trace its effects on the industry itself, but instead concentrating on the ways gender radicalized particularly the female workers in the Lancashire mills. In so doing, it promotes the view that it was women weavers' experience of the way in which gender inequality in the labour process clashed with varying degrees of inequality in the other spheres of their lives that caused many of them to organize for the franchise. Their experience of equality in the labour process both sensitized them to inequality elsewhere and empowered them to fight against it by showing it to be a product of society rather than nature. 'Drawing on the examples provided by disenfranchized working-class men and middle-class women alike, they accounted for inequality in terms of their exclusion from the polity. In the process of holding their own against male co-workers, supervisory staff, employers, labour activists, politicians, and even many middle-class women, they evolved their own version of working-class femininity, which differed in important ways from the female domesticity that had a vibrant existence in labour rhetoric, but rarely beyond.
Download or read book Lancashire Where Women Die of Love written by Charles Nevin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enough! For far too long, Lancashire has languished under the grimy pall of smoke and muck and mills and mines, enveloped in outdated condescensions, smothered by the easy dismissals that put down the north of England as just 'up there' and 'grim'. Thank you very much George Orwell, Monty Python and every London cabbie. But Lancashire is not up there. Lancs is actually situated in the centre of the British Isles. And far from being grim, it is a place of wit and wonder, romance and surprise, a land of exotic influence whose people have always looked outward to sophistications and influences beyond frontiers and seas. Indeed, French writer Honoré de Balzac recognised these affinities and yearnings in the Lancashire people when he had one of his characters declare that 'Lancashire is the county where women die of love.' Mock if you like, but then think about it: where is the magnificent thoroughfare that inspired the boulevards of Paris? Where did they go to film Brief Encounter, the most romantic British film ever made? Where did the young Shakespeare dream of and draw on for his inspired imaginings? Join Charles Nevin, Fleet Street journalist and humorist, as he returns to his roots and reveals all this and more. Discover the true Camelot and the beauty that is rugby league. See where Lancastrians go to die, but first visit Lost Lancashire and its great twin cities, Manchester and Liverpool. Mull over why Britain's greatest comics, from Laurel to Coogan, Formby to Vegas, Dodd to Kay, Fields to Wood, Morecambe and Dawson, have all come from Lancs. Mere coincidence? Give over, and read on . . .
Download or read book Lancashire and Whitehall written by Sir Raymond Streat and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
