ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|45 pages

Problems and Perspectives

chapter 2|17 pages

The Coal Industry

chapter 3|24 pages

The Iron Industry

chapter 4|20 pages

The Engineering Industry

chapter 5|19 pages

The Shipbuilding Industry

chapter 6|16 pages

Railway Enterprise

chapter 7|19 pages

The Building Industry

chapter 8|20 pages

The Cotton Textile Industry

chapter 9|18 pages

The Woollen Textile Industry

chapter 10|13 pages

The Shoe and Leather Industries

chapter 11|24 pages

The Drink Trades

chapter 12|14 pages

Commercial Enterprise