Enterprise and Technology: The German and British Steel Industries, 1897–1914

ISBN-13: 9780521384254 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 308 str.

Ulrich Wengenroth (Technische Universität München)

Opis

This is a detailed account of the British and German steel industries' performance during three decades that were marked by dramatic change. Relying on governmental and corporate archives as well as on the contemporary trade literature, Professor Wengenroth has drawn a meticulous picture of how managements in the two countries met the strategic problems raised by these changes. The author does not however merely trace technological developments; rather, he uses them as a backdrop for a contribution to the long-running debate on Britain's relative industrial decline in the late nineteenth century.

Recenzje

"Ulrich Wengenroth has produced a fine history of the two main steelmaking industries of Europe in the late nineteenth century....Wengenroth's clear and deeply researched book will be important reading for anyone working on the economic history of Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth century." Steven Webb, Central European History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The technology of late nineteenth-century steelmaking; 2. Expanding into the Slump: the railways as major customers of the new steel industry; 3. Surmounting the Slump: the individual strategies of firms; 4. Surmounting the Slump: collective strategies; 5. New processes and new markets; 6. Efficiency and capacity for innovation; Sources and bibliography; Index.