'Engineering' in G W Roderick & M Stephens (eds), Where Did We Go Wrong? Industrial performance, education and the economy in Victorian Britain

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Author(s) Sims, Geoffrey
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1981
Pages pp139-54
Publisher Falmer Press
Place Published Lewes

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Name Education - occupational skills & training

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the decline of the industry in the later 19th century having sections: 'Victorian industry and engineering - a synopsis'; 'The decline - some specific contributory factors' - education, management, marketing, overseas competition; 'Mechanisation, technological adaption and change' - barriers to change, attitudes of labour, changing patterns of development and technological utilisation, finance and free trade