Gary Bryan Magee

Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry

Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860 1914

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780521581974
• ISBN-10: 0521581974
• Artikelnr.: 29426035

Inhaltsangabe

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.