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Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015030607900
This book is the first history of the British machine-tool industry during a time when it played a crucial part in the transformation of the British economy.
Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones,M.J. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351959568
At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, this study charts the wider fortunes of this vital part of the manufacturing sector. Taking a chronological approach, the book explores how during the late nineteenth century the industry developed a reputation for excellence throughout the world, before the challenges of two world wars necessitated drastic changes and reorganisations. Despite meeting these challenges and emerging with confidence into the post-war market place, the British machine tool industry never regained its pre-eminent position, and increasingly lost ground to foreign competition. By using the example of Alfred Herbert Ltd to illuminate the broader economic and business history of the British machine tool industry, this study not only provides a valuable insight into British manufacturing, but also contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding Britain's alleged decline as a manufacturing nation.
Author : J. Judson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Machine-tool industry
ISBN : CHI:78833299
Author : British Metalworking Machine Tool Productivity Team
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Machine-shop practice
ISBN : UCAL:B4524037
Author : Wolfgang J. Mommsen,Hans-Gerhard Husung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351815246
This 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.
Author : John F Wilson,Andrew Popp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351927796
Although economists have long recognised industrial districts as one of the key features of many economies, it is only recently that attention has been focused on the region as an effective means of generating accurate insights into the larger picture of economic performance. This renewed interest in regional issues has also placed at centre stage the role played by networks as a principal organisational feature of the local business community, providing scholars with a rich topic for investigation and debate. Recent work has shown that universal generalisations concerning the impact of networking on the performance of industrial clusters lack credibility, highlighting the consequent need to compare the role played by business networks in a variety of regions. Using a copious range of research material examining several British regions, this volume poses a series of fundamental questions about the nature of industrial clusters and networks. Particular attention is paid to identifying the basic characteristics of a network, outlining how they evolved in key industrial clusters, and assessing their impact on industrial performance, both regionally and nationally. The durability of such networks is another key thread that runs through the essays, prompting comparison with industrial clusters in Britain and abroad. These are issues which stimulate discussion on a wide range of factors within the disciplines of business, economic and social history.
Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones,Myrddin John Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1315262940
"At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, this study charts the wider fortunes of this vital part of the manufacturing sector. Taking a chronological approach, the book explores how during the late nineteenth century the industry developed a reputation for excellence throughout the world, before the challenges of two world wars necessitated drastic changes and reorganisations. Despite meeting these challenges and emerging with confidence into the post-war market place, the British machine tool industry never regained its pre-eminent position, and increasingly lost ground to foreign competition. By using the example of Alfred Herbert Ltd to illuminate the broader economic and business history of the British machine tool industry, this study not only provides a valuable insight into British manufacturing, but also contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding Britain's alleged decline as a manufacturing nation."--Provided by publisher.
Author : William Paca Kennedy
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987-07-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521230187
Author : Richard Lawton,Colin G. Pooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000390285
Originally published in 1992, this book provides students with a well-illustrated, clearly written text which offers a coherent overview of Britain’s development from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society. The key processes that have shaped the geography of modern Britain are rooted in the significant demographic, economic, technological and social transitions of the early eighteenth century, the impact of which was not fully diffused through the nation until the mid-20th Century. This country-wide survey examines the nature of this transformation. The material in the book is accessible because the book is clearly structured into 3 phases: 1740 to the 1830s; the 1830s to the 1890s and the 1890s to 1950. For each period, the principal aspects of change in population, industry, the countryside and urban life are examined, and regional examples given to support the analysis.
Author : Great Britain. Machine Tool Expert Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Machine-tools
ISBN : OCLC:1435961614
Author : Myrddin John Lewis,Roger Lloyd-Jones,Mark David Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317081975
This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the relationship between corporate governance and personal capitalism in British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, provides the means for a systematic and critical examination of the dominant Chandlerian paradigm that the long-running persistence of personal capitalism shaped the governance of British manufacturing firms well into the twentieth century and acted to erode their competitive performance. The book helps to identify those aspects of corporate governance that have undergone change, with some critical observations on the magnitude of change and those aspects which have displayed characteristics of continuity. The empirical spine of this book is set out in a series of case studies which provide the basis for the examination of corporate governance in Britain during the period c. 1900 to 1950. By focusing particularly on the responses of a range of businesses to the turbulent environment of the inter-war years, this volume offers an insight into a much neglected, yet vital, area of business and economic history.
Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136753275
This celebrated and seminal text examines the industrial revolution, from its genesis in pre-industrial Britain, through its development and into maturity. A chapter-by-chapter analysis explores topics such as economic growth, agriculture, trade finance, labour and transport. First published in 1969, The First Industrial Nation is widely recognised as a classic text for students of the industrial revolution.
Author : David C. Mowery,Richard R. Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521645204
This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computers, semiconductors, and software. In each of these industries, firms located in one or a very few countries became the clear technological and commercial leaders. In a number of cases, the locus of leadership changed, sometimes more than once, over the course of the histories studied. The focus of the book is on the key factors that supported the emergence of national leadership in each industry, and the reasons behind the shifts when they occurred. Special attention is given to the national policies that helped to create or sustain industrial leadership.
Author : Deirdre N. McCloskey,George K. Hersh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521403278
Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common - the movement since the 1950s known variously as 'cliometrics', 'economic history', or 'historical economics'. A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George Hersh and a panel of distinguished advisors, a highly comprehensive bibliography of historical economics covering the period up until 1980. The book will be useful to all economic historians, as well as quantitative historians, applied economists, historical demographers, business historians, national income accountants, and social historians.
Author : Graham T. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319251097
Maximizing reader insights into the key scientific disciplines of Machine Tool Metrology, this text will prove useful for the industrial-practitioner and those interested in the operation of machine tools. Within this current level of industrial-content, this book incorporates significant usage of the existing published literature and valid information obtained from a wide-spectrum of manufacturers of plant, equipment and instrumentation before putting forward novel ideas and methodologies. Providing easy to understand bullet points and lucid descriptions of metrological and calibration subjects, this book aids reader understanding of the topics discussed whilst adding a voluminous-amount of footnotes utilised throughout all of the chapters, which adds some additional detail to the subject. Featuring an extensive amount of photographic-support, this book will serve as a key reference text for all those involved in the field.
