Author: Supple, Barry, editor:
Title: Essays in British Business History
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977. orig.boards. 24x16cm, viii, 267 pp, Some soil to dustwrapper.. Slight binding warp,some rubbing, slight top-page-edge stain,VG. ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includes: Barry Supple "A Framework for British Business History"; S.B. Saul "The Mechanical Engineering Industries in Britain, 1860 - 1914"; B.W.E. Alford "Penny Cigarettes, Oligopoly, and Entrepreneurship in the U.K. Tobacco Industry in the late Nineteenth Century"; Barry Supple "Corporate Growth & Structural Change in a Service Industry: Insurance, 1870 - 1914"; D.C. Coleman "Courtaulds & the Beginning of Rayon"; Roy Church "Family & Failure: Archibald Kenrick & Sons Ltd. 1900 - 1950"; Charles Wilson "Management & Policy in Large- scale Enterprise: Lever Brothers & Unilever, 1918 - 1938"; Peter Mathias " Manufacturers & Retailing in the Food Trades: The Struggle over Margarine";Roy Church & Michael Miller "The Big Three: Competition, Management, and Marketing in the British Motor Industry, 1922-1939"; T.C. Barker "Business Implications of Technical Developments in the Glass Industry, 1945-1964: A Case-Study"; Leslie Hannah "A Pioneer of Public Enterprise: The Central Electricity Board & the National Grid, 1927-1940"; W.J. Reader "Imperial Chemical Industries & the State, 1926-1945"; W.R. Garside "Management & Men: Aspects of British Industrial Relations in the Inter-war Period".

Keywords: Economic history, Great Britain, Industrial history, Business history, Industries, , , ,