British Economic History, 1700-1870CUP Archive, 1971 |
Contents
THE CLIMATE OF ECONOMIC | 3 |
CHANGE ON THE FARM | 33 |
The agricultural pricefall | 43 |
The cost and status of agricultural labour | 49 |
The British farmer on the eve of war 1912 | 59 |
The congested districts of Ireland | 66 |
OLD INDUSTRIES AND | 78 |
The decline and fall of the small workshop | 88 |
National plan for coal | 249 |
The Bradford Dyers Association | 252 |
Portland cement | 259 |
Cigarettes and the tobacco combine | 262 |
the conference system page | 265 |
The judgment in the Mogul Steamship case | 269 |
A free market | 272 |
a backward look | 274 |
Coal exports | 95 |
the Thomas process page | 98 |
The end of the Iron Age | 100 |
competition abroad | 103 |
An enterprising partnership in shipbuilding | 107 |
Steel in ships | 109 |
the battleship III | 111 |
Lancashire cotton | 115 |
organization | 116 |
competition from Asia | 119 |
Export boom in Lancashire | 121 |
Football by electric light in the 1870s | 123 |
The origins of the electric lamp industry | 124 |
A meeting with Joseph Swan | 125 |
Electricity attracts capital | 126 |
Ferranti and central station supply | 129 |
Thoughts in war time upon electricity | 130 |
Marconi and the beginnings of wireless telegraphy | 134 |
The BrunnerMond partnership in chemicals | 136 |
Ludwig Mond | 140 |
Rarity of chemical engineers in Britain | 141 |
the continental lead | 144 |
The invention of the pneumatic tyre | 146 |
so The cycling boom of the 1890s | 147 |
SI Crisis Crisis among the cycle makers | 148 |
an assembly industry | 149 |
Foundations of the motorcar industry | 151 |
F W Lanchester | 153 |
The demand for motortransport | 154 |
The assembly line | 156 |
Tradition and innovation before 1914 | 160 |
Industry and the Education Act 1870 | 162 |
The influence of war 18701 | 163 |
The world economy and science | 164 |
Necessity the mother of invention? | 166 |
the European example page | 167 |
Quintin Hogg and the Polytechnic | 169 |
the case against | 171 |
Britains lack of sciencebased industry | 172 |
The wartime scarcity of industrial scientists | 173 |
INCOMES EARNED ABROAD | 177 |
The dependence of the standard of living on foreign trade | 184 |
The causes of an excess of imports over exports | 185 |
Overseas supplies of foodstuffs and raw materials | 188 |
The finance of overseas trade | 195 |
Steam and the Canal in the eastern trade | 197 |
Ship management on the Indian Ocean | 201 |
Barter in West Africa | 202 |
How to succeed in the skin and leather business | 203 |
British exports and foreign tariffs 1886 | 205 |
The American invasion | 208 |
Britains competitive situation 1903 | 213 |
The shady side of foreign loans | 216 |
Floating a foreign loan in the 1870s | 218 |
British money in Australian wool | 220 |
British capital in Australian cities | 223 |
The western rangecattle industry in the United States | 225 |
Borrowing for public works | 228 |
British investors in Canada | 230 |
Investment in Mexican oil | 234 |
COMPETITION AND MONOPOLY | 239 |
The Salt Union | 245 |
Retail price maintenance in the 1890s | 247 |
PART II | 277 |
STUDIES IN POVERTY | 279 |
Giffen on social income in midVictorian Britain | 284 |
Charles Booth on the poverty of London | 288 |
The Warwickshire labourer in the 1890s | 295 |
The diet of the Warwickshire labourer | 298 |
York | 299 |
Liverpool | 304 |
The farm labourer on the eve of war | 312 |
IOS The check to real incomes | 316 |
The Wages Bargain | 318 |
The Trade Union Bill 1871 | 326 |
The increasing power of Trade Unions 1878 | 328 |
Arbitration in the coal industry | 329 |
printing | 330 |
the agricultural labourers | 333 |
The lock out in Agriculture | 334 |
the gas stokers | 336 |
The origins of the strike at the London docks 1889 | 338 |
The significance of the dock strike | 342 |
IIs The Brooklands agreement | 343 |
Industrial war in shipbuilding | 346 |
The Taff Vale decision 1901 | 347 |
Trade Unionism after Taff Vale | 349 |
The Trade Disputes Act 1906 | 350 |
the nonrecognition of Trade Unions | 351 |
The Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908 | 352 |
Syndicalism in the coal fields | 353 |
Industrial relations before the war | 356 |
The Triple Alliance | 358 |
The Concept of the Minimum | 361 |
The position of wageearners page | 369 |
The cabhorse standard | 370 |
How far is it safe to abandon the market? | 371 |
The principles of charity | 373 |
The conditions of charity | 374 |
The principle of public assistance | 375 |
Public assistance in the 1890s | 376 |
The report on the Poor Law 1909 | 378 |
The case for poor law reform | 379 |
London wages at the turn of the century | 383 |
What is sweated industry? | 385 |
Boxmaking in Londons East End | 390 |
The Trade Boards Act 1909 | 392 |
A minimum wage for agricultural workers? | 395 |
The inadequacy of a minimum wage | 397 |
Old age in Stepney | 398 |
Asquith on old age pensions 1908 | 399 |
Looking for work in the 1870s | 400 |
A public works programme for the unemployed 1886 | 402 |
Unemployment the main risk of workingclass life | 405 |
The Unemployed Workmen Act 1905 | 406 |
Casual labour in London building | 408 |
Churchill on Labour Exchanges | 409 |
Labour Exchanges Act 1909 | 412 |
Unemployment an insurable risk | 413 |
Lloyd George on National Insurance 1911 | 415 |
The Economics of Empire | 418 |
The armed peace in Europe | 428 |
ISS The institution of war and the economy of Europe | 429 |
Britains economic gain from colonies | 430 |
The fair traders | 431 |
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