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

Gary Bryan Magee

ISBN 10: 0521892171 / ISBN 13: 9780521892179

Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2002

312 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. Codice articolo __0521892171

Riassunto:

This significant 1997 contribution to modern economic history examines the important, but little studied, paper industry.

Recensione: "Gary Magee has written a thoughtful, rather abstract study of productivity in American and British papermaking during the second half of the nineteenth century." Leonard N. Rosenband, Isis

"This study is unambiguously located within a well-defined field of research, that of the relative decline of British manufacturing supremacy and, more particularly, the performance of late Victorian and Edwardian entrepreneurs. Its subject is well-chosen. ...cuts a fresh path through the hesitations of an old debate." Pierre Claude Reynard, Journal of Economic History

"Its real contribution is not so much the admittedly neglected case of papermakingg, but the attempt to integrate the perceived entrepreneurial failure into a credible economic analysis." Andrew Godley, EH.NET

"This is a welcome addition to books on the history of papermaking, particularly as it is a comparative study of the industries in Britain and America." Richard L. Hills, Technology and Culture

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Titolo: Productivity and Performance in the Paper ...
Casa editrice: Cambridge Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Brand New