'Halbeath Colliery and Salt Works, 1785-1791' in A Slaven & D Aldcroft (eds), Business, Banking & Urban History. Essays in honour of S G Checkland
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- Author(s) Payne, Peter L
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1982
- Pages pp2-34
- Publisher John Donald Publishers
- Place Published Edinburgh
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An account of the colliery to 1791, briefly dealing with the Lloyds but covering at much greater length their successors. Deals with the development and history of the business and the varying issues confronted by its owners - output growth and lack of profitability; planning; finance; investment; labour; partner relationships; nature of economic relationship with the saltworks; etc