Men of Iron. The Crowleys in the early iron industry
Details:
- Author(s) Flinn, Michael W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1962
- Pages 270pp; illus
- Publisher University of Edinburgh Press
- Place Published Edinburgh
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Government procurement
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Management structures
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly account of the Crowley family's business structured in three parts, viz: Part 1] 'Family and firm' - The Crowleys of Stourbridge' / 'Sir Ambrose Crowley - laying the foundations' / 'Sir Ambrose Crowley - expansion and consolidation' / 'John Crowley' / 'The later history of the firm, 1728-1863'; Part 2] 'Commercial organisation' - 'Raw materials' / 'Transport and shipping' / 'Distribution and markets' / 'Naval contracting'; 'Finance'; Part 3] 'Industrial organisation' - 'Process of manufacture' / 'Organisation of production' / 'Industrial welfare' / 'Crowley's crew'