British Manufacturing Industries

Notes:

First edition c1876 and some [all?] reprinted 1877-8. Republished on microfiche, 1988, by Chadwick Healey. Contemporary accounts of British industries. Each volume covers a few industries. Each chapter written by an industry expert often from outside manufacturing industry, eg museums, academia and trade press, and each varies slightly in its focus but most are largely devoted to describing current manufacturing processes. Some place these in an historical context and sometimes provide general insight into the industry. By way of example: Vol 4, 1877 - 'Paper' / 'Printing' / 'Bookbinding' / 'Engraving' / 'Photography' / 'Toys'; Vol 5, 1878 - 'Salt' / 'Sugar refining' / 'Butter and cheese' / Brewing' / 'Preservation of food' / 'Bread and biscuits' / 'Distilling'; Vol 8, 1877 - 'Tobacco' / 'Hides and leather' / 'Guttapercha' / 'India rubber' / Fibres and cordage'. See also the writer's 'The Industrial Classes and Industrial Statistics', 2 vols, 1876-7, which deals with 'the subject of the worker' in specified industries covering such areas as numbers employed, nature of workers, type of work undertaken, nature of processes, mortality, etc