British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Pollard, Sidney, & Paul L Robertson
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 312pp; illus
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Place Published Cambridge MA
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Education - occupational skills & training
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Business & related networks, exc mercantile networks
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Groups:
Notes:
Scholarly business and industrial account of the industry dealing with a wide range of issues - adoption of technical change and production organisation; supplier and customer relations; management and training of employees; long term and short term finance; etc. Has chapters: 'Evolution of the steel steamship'; 'Fluctuations in shipbuilding output'; 'Regional shipbuilding'; 'The firms'; 'Industrial organisation'; 'The development of the shipyard'; 'Scientific shipbuilding and the evolution of technical education'; 'Labour and labour relations'; 'Wages, employment and productivity'; 'The influence of the state'. Extensive statistical appendices. Much about individual businesses eg Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd, Cammell Laird & Co Ltd; Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd; William Denny Bros Ltd; Harland & Wolff; John Brown & Co Ltd; Vickers Ltd; etc