Consett Iron, 1840 to 1980 : a study in industrial location

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Consett Iron, 1840 to 1980 : a study in industrial location

Kenneth Warren

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-189) and index

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内容説明

This is an account of the 140 year history of one of Britain's most distinguished iron and steel companies. Although the focus is on one firm, this is placed in the context of the economic changes which have taken place within the industry of England and the nation as a whole. The great industrial expansion of the early Victorian decades passed into the uncertainty of the last quarter of the century, then into chronic inter-war depression, and finally into the problems of slow growth and a de-industrializing Britain. Consett Iron Co. was involved in all these stages of national and economic development. Although in many ways seriously disadvantaged, it was a generally successful company until it succumbed within a nationalized British steel industry. The history of the company, spanning this vital period, together with the availability of archival material, makes this test case for theories of Britain's industrial decline. The industrial career of the company is outlined and analyzed, and the significance of its economic development and demise are considered in the context of the British economy.

目次

  • Ironmaking in County Durham and the North-East to 1850
  • Cleveland ore and adjustments at inland plants
  • railway accommodation for Consett, 1834 to 1862
  • 1834 to 1862
  • Consett crisis and expansion, 1857 to 1870
  • early assessments for development planning
  • re-equipment and the reorganization of the supply and marketing situation to the mid-1970s
  • the great crisis - collapse in the finished iron trade and movement into steel production
  • the creation of a town and a society - and the inertia of social overhead capital
  • consideration of relocation in the 1890s
  • Consett, 1890 to 1914
  • unravelling the puzzle of Consett success
  • the great war
  • the 1920s - a critical decade in Consett development
  • the thirties - depression, and national and regional organization
  • Consett iron and the redevelopment of Jarrow
  • Consett works after world war II
  • the new plate mill
  • the mid-sixties - Consett's location challenged and defended
  • Consett within the British steel corporation
  • the progress to closure, 1980
  • the Jarrow of eighties?
  • one-industry communities - private and social costs.

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