By Gary Bryan Magee
In an important new contribution to financial historical past, Dr. Magee examines an enormous British that, like many others, declined in relative value throughout the interval sooner than 1914. He compares Britain's functionality in papermaking with its major overseas competitors of the time, the United States and Germany, addressing such significant topics as technological switch, entrepreneurship and productiveness. The e-book could be priceless to students of monetary background in addition to these easily attracted to papermaking.
Read or Download Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914 PDF
Best manufacturing books
Polymer Processing - Modeling and Simulation
His three-part textbook is written for a two-semester polymer processing sequence in mechanical or chemical engineering. the 1st and moment half are designed for a senior- to grad-level path introducing polymer processing, and the 3rd half is for a graduate path on simulation in polymer processing.
Selection and Evaluation of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Matthew J. Liberatore division of administration Villanova college Villanova, PA 19085 1. historical past The weakening aggressive place of many segments of u. s. production has been analyzed, debated and mentioned in company boardrooms, educational journals and the preferred literature. One consequence has been a renewed dedication towards bettering productiveness and caliber within the place of work.
Chemistry, manufacture and applications of natural rubber
The becoming call for for extra sustainable fabrics has resulted in elevated learn at the houses of common rubber. Chemistry, Manufacture and purposes of normal Rubber summarizes this examine and its importance for the economic functions of ordinary rubber. Chapters partially one discover the homes and processing of traditional rubber, together with the biosynthesis of ordinary rubber in several rubber-producing species, chemical amendment of average rubber for more advantageous functionality, and the influence of strain-induced crystallization at the actual houses of typical rubber.
Lean Innovation: Understanding What's Next in Today's Economy
Do those reviews sound typical? we might like to be extra leading edge, yet we don’t have the assets Innovation works in a few businesses; we simply aren’t that inventive We get a few stable rules, yet not anything ever occurs with them regrettably, they mirror the final notion and setting for innovation in lots of organizations at the present time.
- Cellular Development
- Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town
- Developing a make or buy strategy for manufacturing business
- Parts Fabrication: Principles and Process
- Results-based systematic operational improvement
- Assembly Processes: Finishing, Packaging, and Automation (The Handbook of Manufacturing Engineering, Second Edition) (Volume 4)
Additional resources for Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914
Sample text
12 Technological development is thus a localised, firm-specific, cumulative, and path-dependent process. 13 This type of gradual development is characteristic of a number of industries. One of these appears to be the paper industry. Studying the paper industry, therefore, may reveal valuable information not only about the development of the industry itself, but also in a more general sense about this important type of technological change. In the next section we focus in detail on the process of technological change in the trade in the late Victorian and Edwardian era.
British India was another major market, usually being the final destination for between 15 and 20 per cent of Britain's paper exports. Although the importance of the imperial marketplace to the British papermaker is unquestionable, the fact that these markets' share of the mother country's paper appears to have fallen as the century unfolded implies that if these were in fact 'soft markets' as some have argued, then the industry's reliance on them weakened rather than strengthened after 1865. 5 per cent of all exports in both years.
He also believed it to 17 18 Stevenson, Background, pp. 141-2; Cohen, 'Economic determination', pp. 3/45-7; and S. B. D. thesis, University of Wisconsin (1968), p. 8. Paper Makers' Circular (hereafter PMC), lOJune 1889, p. 211. 20 Our situation, however, does not exactly match that of Bertrand competition, since what operated in the paper trade to keep prices in check was not so much the competition between differentiated products, but the threat of cross-entry from a mass market of manufacturers with virtually identical production technologies.