The Productivity Race
British Manufacturing in International Perspective, 1850–1990
$64.99 ( ) USD
- Author: Steve N. Broadberry, University of Warwick
- Date Published: April 2011
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511823725
Find out more about Cambridge eBooks
$
64.99 USD
( )
Adobe eBook Reader
Other available formats:
Hardback, Paperback
Looking for an examination copy?
This title is not currently available for examination. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an examination copy. To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching.
-
This book is a reassessment of British performance in manufacturing since 1850 in the light of new evidence on international comparisons of productivity. It analyzes productivity levels in Britain, the United States and Germany and provides detailed case studies of all the major manufacturing industries over the past century and a half. Stephen Broadberry uncovers new ways of looking at Britain's relative economic decline while debunking a number of misapprehensions regarding the nature and causes of the decline.
Read more- A major reassessment of Britain's manufacturing performance over the past 150 years
- Provides internationally comparative data
- Offers a comprehensive set of industry case studies
Reviews & endorsements
"This outstanding monograph makes a notable contribution to our understanding of Western as well as British economic development....this work is essential for economic historians, graduate students, and many economists." Choice
See more reviews"...one of the most valuable, thoroughly researched and persuasively argued contributions to British industrial history to appear in recent years. It will be studied to effect and widely quoted fokr many years to come." Sidney Pollard, Business History Review
"This book presents a magisterial survey of the record of manufacturing productivity in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century set against American and German experience." William P. Kennedy, American Historical Review
"Overall, historians of technology will be dutiful impressed with Broadberry's volume...which stands as the most comprehensive and useful overview of the history of British manufacturing to date." Jacqueline McGlade, Technology and Culture
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511823725
- contains: 228 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction and overview
Part I. Measuring Comparative Productivity Performance:
2. International comparisons of productivity in manufacturing: benchmark estimates by industry
3. Labour productivity in aggregate manufacturing: Britain, the United States and Germany
4. Extending the picture: manufacturing productivity in other industrialised countries
5. Manufacturing and the whole economy
Part II. Explaining Comparative Productivity Performance:
6. Technology
7. Economic geography: markets and natural resources
8. Accumulation of physical and human capital
9. Competition and adjustment
Part III. Reassessing the Performance of British Industry:
10. The rise of competition from abroad, 1850–1914
11. War and depression, 1914–50
12. Changing markets and technology, 1950–90
13. Concluding comments
Bibliography
Index.
Related Books
related journals
also by this author
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email [email protected]
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×