First Published in 2005. This volume looks at the problems and perspectives of Victorian Business in the 1870s.The purpose of this collection of essays is to explore further that part of the thesis, tentatively advanced in interrogative mode in 1975, concerning the course of industrial development during the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century.
Introduction
1. Problems and Perspectives, R.A. Church
2. The coal industry, A.J. Taylor
3. The iron industry, P.J. Riden
4. The engineering industry, A.E. Musson
5. The shipbuilding industry, A. Slaven
6. Railway enterprise, T.R. Gourvish
7. The building industry, E.W. Cooney
8. The cotton textile industry, C.H. Lee
9. The woollen textile industry, E.M. Sigsworth
10. The shoe and Leather industries, R.A. Church
11. The drink trades, R.B. Weir
12. Commercial Enterprise, P.L. Cottrell
Biography
Edited by Roy Church Professor of Economic and Social History, University of East Anglia.
