An Early Experiment in Industrial Organisation; being a history of the firm of Boulton & Watt, 1775-1805
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- Author(s) Roll, Eric
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1968
- Pages 2nd ed; 320pp
- Publisher Frank Cass
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Accounting: internal issues inc costing, pricing, etc
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
- Name Management practices
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 1930. New impression 1968. See the writer's doctoral thesis 'An Early Industrial Organisation. A history of the firm of Boulton & Watt', Birmingham, 1930. An early scholarly business history drawing on the firm's extensive archives to relate an analysis of its business organisation [and not technical development]. Structured in two parts, viz: Part 1] 'Boulton & Watt' and Part 2] 'Boulton & Watt & Sons'. Part 1: 'Introductory - 'The steam engine' / 'The partnership'; 'Early business'; 'Cornwall'; 'Changing fortunes'; 'General activities'. Part 2: 'Soho Foundry'; 'Scientific organisation'; 'Wages and labour conditions'; 'Business policy'. Extensive appendices cover account analysis, work organisation, prices, wages, etc