The rise of a Victorian ironopolis : Middlesbrough and regional industrialisation

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The rise of a Victorian ironopolis : Middlesbrough and regional industrialisation

Minoru Yasumoto

(Regions and regionalism in history, 15)

Boydell, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index

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内容説明

Explains the astonishing growth of Middlesbrough from a hamlet to a very substantial town in the space of a few decades in the middle of the nineteenth century. Middlesbrough's rise was truly extraordinary, from almost nothing in 1850 to a great industrial city within a few decades, its success based on iron and steel. This book examines the development. It discusses the role of urban planners, charts the growth of the iron and steel industry including the introduction of new manufacturing techniques and the exploitation of important local iron ore deposits, and explores the role of a vast range of self-helpinstitutions through which workers supported themselves at a time when aid from the state was minimal. It shows how industries "clustered", explaining why Middlesbrough became the hub of such a cluster; outlines the demographic nature of the workforce, showing how there was much migration, with people coming to Middlesbrough to work for a while then leaving; and concludes by examining the adverse factors which quickly became apparent, some of whichwere to lead to Middlesbrough's decline - over-dependence on one industry, a relatively undiversified economic and social structure, and insufficient urban infrastructure which left the city vulnerable to debilitating environmental pollution. MINORU YASUMOTO is a Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Komazawa University, Japan.

目次

Town Planning and the Birth of Middlesbrough Industrial Agglomeration in the Cleveland Iron and Steel Industry Demography and Urban Growth The Labour Market in Cleveland Iron and Steel Welfare Provision in Mid-Victorian Middlesbrough Conclusion

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