Download or read book Lead Manufacturing in Britain written by D. J. Rowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983. Extensive research into the archives of the lead industry has culminated in this comprehensive and fascinating account of the industry from the earliest times to the 1980’s. It traces the origins of the various types of lead manufacturing and the nineteenth-century expansion of the industry. The technological changes within the industry are traced in detail, and an appraisal of modern industry and its future prospects concluded this definitive and very readable history of the lead industry.
Download or read book History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain written by Edward Baines and published by London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & F. Jackson, [pref.1835]. This book was released on 1835 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Download or read book British Manufacturing Industries Edited by G P Bevan written by George Phillips BEVAN and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Days at the Factories written by George Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Days at the factories or The manufacturing industry of Great Britain described written by George Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Days at the Factories written by George Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturing in Britain written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing in Britain: A Survey of Factors Affecting Growth and Performance This book provides a concise, comprehensive account of factors affecting manufacturing growth and performance in modern Britain. It begins with a review of general trends and issues before turning to individual firm and industry cases. The study examines new product developments, market trends, and economic environmental influences. It analyses plant level managerial and organizational aspects of production. Finally, it considers political legal, educational and training, and other wider socio cultural influences on manufacturing growth and performance. Contents: 1. Manufacturing in Britain: an Overview of Factors Affecting Growth and Performance 2. General Economic Influences on Manufacturing 3. Manufactured Goods Markets and Demand Trends 4. Technological Development and Product Innovation 5. Management and Production Organization 6. Manufacturing Industries: Cases 7. The Political and Legal Environment 8. The Labour Market, Employment, and Education and Training for Manufacturing Jobs 9. Capital Investment and the Growth and Performance of Firms
Download or read book Future of UK manufacturing written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Trade and Industry Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public sector spends nearly GBP 125 billion, or ten per cent of GDP, each year purchasing goods and services in the UK economy. This report focuses on whether the rules and practices relating to procurement of goods and services by public authorities hinder or help UK manufacturers in obtaining public contracts.
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.
Download or read book Days at the Factories written by George Dodd and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Download or read book The Productivity Race written by S. N. Broadberry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reassessment of British performance in manufacturing since 1850 in the light of new evidence on international comparisons of productivity. Using a novel analytical framework of technological evolution, Stephen Broadberry uncovers new ways of looking at Britain's relative economic decline while debunking a number of misapprehensions regarding the nature and causes of the decline. It analyses productivity levels in Britain, the United States and Germany and provides detailed case studies of all the major manufacturing industries, broken down into three periods: 1850-1914, 1914-50 and 1950-90. Broadberry offers a wide coverage of industries, with invaluable country-specific information. By combining a multitude of detailed productivity measurements with qualitative industrial and business history, he provides a major contribution to our understanding of British economic performance over the last 150 years.
Download or read book Empire of Guns written by Priya Satia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Download or read book American Investment in British Manufacturing Industry written by John H. Dunning and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work, first published in 1958, is a seminal text in international business history. This new, substantially updated and revised edition is being published on the fortieth anniversary of the first edition. Features of the revised edition include: * a new introduction * a new concluding chapter * amendments and additions to the original text * a new statistical appendix which examines the main features and significance of the US penetration of UK industry over the past four decades. Professor Dunning is one of the most internationally renowned and respected scholars in international business research. The updated version of this highly regarded book is a major contribution to studies in international business history.
Download or read book Manufacturing Industries in Britain written by Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective written by Robert C. Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Download or read book Competitveness and Productivity of UK Manufacturing Industry written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Trade and Industry Committee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing productivity in the UK has consistently lagged behind that of our international competitors for twenty years. The events of 11 September 2001 added to the problems of the sector by the significant impact on international trade, affecting manufacturers dependent on export markets. The Committee investigated these two topics. It finds that the events of 11 September reinforced and accelerated a decline in world trade already underway, and although the impact in the short term for sectors such as aerospace and engineering is serious, the long-term effect should not be great. On productivity, the report highlights a consistent shortfall in capital investment relative to international competitors. In addition, the strength of sterling has had an adverse effect on the competitiveness of UK manufacturing, with many firms squeezing margins to remain competitive rather than seeking efficiency savings. The Committee sees scope for government giving priority to the needs of the manufacturing sector
