Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry - Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914

Zusammenfassung In this 1997 book! Gary Magee examines the performance prior to 1914 of a very important! but little studied! British industry. The author compares Britain's performance in paper-making with its main international rivals! addressing such central subjects as technological change! entrepreneurship and productivity. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Background; 2. Technological change; 3. Performance; 4. Rags, esparto and wood: entrepreneurship and the choice of raw materials; 5. The Anglo-American labour productivity gap; 6. Unions and manning practices in Britain and America; 7. Raw materials, women, and labour-saving machinery: the Anglo-American gap, 1860-90; 8. Technological divergence: the Anglo-American gap, 1890-1913; 9. Free trade and paper; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Gary Bryan Magee, Gary Bryan (Australian National University Magee
• Assisted by: Charles Feinstein (Editor), Patrick O'Brien (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2002
• EAN: 9780521892179
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89217-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Ec
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries