This volume consists of two reviews of statistics concerning industry, one focussing on the iron and steel industry and the other on shipbuilding. The authors offer invaluable guidance through the considerable amount of statistical information covered. The Quick Reference List and Key to Publications will prove particularly useful for researchers. Topics covered include raw materials, manufacturing, consumption and employment.

Iron and Steel/Shipbuilding (REVIEWS OF UNITED KINGDOM STATISTICAL SOURCES)

Business & Money

Slaven, Anthony

Heal, David W.

Economics

Pergamon Pr

The economic and social problems of modern Scotland are at the centre of current debate about regional economic growth, social improvement and environmental rehabilitation. In this book, as relevant today as when it was first published in 1975, Anthony Slaven argues that the extent and causes of these problems are frequently underestimated, thus making development policies less than fully effective. The major economic and social weaknesses of the west of Scotland are shown to be rooted in the regions former strengths. The author demonstrates how, although the region and its people have resisted change, a thriving and self reliant nineteenth-century economy , based on local resources and manpower, has given way in the present century to vanishing skills and products, unemployment and social deprivation. Since 1945 economic and social planning has helped to improve the situation, although many difficulties remain. Seen in the historical perspective provided by this revealing study, the present industrial problems of the west of Scotland, and their remedies, become clearer. Mr Slaven argues that the older industries deserve more help, for without this, he believes, the ineffectiveness of development policies is likely to be perpetuated. This book was first published in 1975.

The Development of the West of Scotland 1750-1960 (Economic History)

Reference

Routledge

The development of the west of Scotland, 1750-1960 (Regional history of the British Isles)

Routledge & K.Paul

<p>This covers three of the areas of greatest current interest to British business historians - entrepreneurship and management, banking and finance, and enterprise in trade and industry. The essays have been commissioned specially from some of the best business historians in Britain. The volume emphasises the themes of enterprise and management as focused sharply in the evidence of business records. A broad introductory survey explores the development of business archives and business history, and this is followed by essays arranged in three sections. Part 1 debates the role and significance of the entrepreneur. Part 2 considers the development of banking and capital markets, and includes a review of 240 years of the Stock Exchange. Part 3 looks at business records, company and sector studies and at enterprise and policy issues.</p>

Enterprise and Management: Essays in Honour of Peter L. Payne

Aldcroft, Derek

History

<p>This is a masterly, immensely readable and totally convincing narrative of 500 years of this great and mightily important British industry In fact, this new book describes with great insight and clarity the development, growth and decline of two industries: first, the highly skilled trade of crafting wooden sailing ships; and, second, the story of the iron and steel shipbuilding industry that took its place. At one time dozens of small yards were busy building the small wooden trading vessels that were the mainstay of British trade with the world, but with the advent of steam power, and of iron hulls, the British industry gradually became concentrated in a few great shipbuilding regions such as the North East, the Clyde and Belfast.</p>

British Shipbuilding, 1500-2010: A History

Europe

Carnegie Publishing

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