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Steel city : entrepreneurship, strategy, and technology in Sheffield 1743-1993
- Title
- Steel city : entrepreneurship, strategy, and technology in Sheffield 1743-1993 / Geoffrey Tweedale.
- Author
- Tweedale, Geoffrey.
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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- Description
- xiii, 436 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-422) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Establishing Competitive Superiority, 1743-1918. 1. Determinants of Steel City. 2. Factor Creation in Special Steels. 3. Business Performance and Industrial Structure to 1914. 4. Sustaining a Lead in Cutlery and Tools. 5. Arsenal of the World -- Pt. II. Meeting the Challenge of Competition in the 1920s and 1930s. 6. The Family Firm in Tool Steelmaking. 7. Mergers, Diversification, and Large-Scale Special Steelmaking. 8. Individualism in the Era of Mass-Produced Cutlery and Tools -- Pt. III. From Boom Times to the Loss of Competitive Advantage: The Late 1930s to the 1980s. 9. Sheffield Steel in War and Peace to 1960. 10. Rationalization and Nationalization. 11. Survivors and New Agendas. Epilogue: Steel City and United Kingdom Industrial Decline.
- ISBN
- 0198288662 :
- LCCN
- 94024342
- OCLC
- ocm31243457
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries