ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1929, analyses the changes to Birmingham and the Black Country in the nineteenth century. The area underwent quite a transformation: many of the older trades were decaying, while at the same time a number of new manufactures were making a remarkable rapid advance. As a result of this, the industrial structure of the area in the early twentieth century was made up of very different constituents from those of which is was composed sixty years previously. This is an invaluable study of a remarkable industrial transformation that was carried out in a very short space of time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|45 pages
Introductory
part II|126 pages
Birmingham and District in 1860
part III|71 pages
Prosperity and Decline 1860–1886
part IV|46 pages
The New Era, 1887–1914
part V|23 pages
The New Industries
part VI|30 pages
Changes in Mechanical Equipment and in the Scale of Industry
part VII|84 pages
War and Post-War, 1914–1927