Management and Industry: Case studies in UK industrial history [Hardcover]

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on how the specific field addressed has evolved.

With contributions on the historic turn in management studies, workers rights, occupational health, industrial networks and the development of the organisation, practices and principles of large UK businesses, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.

Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.

Introduction (John F. Wilson, Nicholas D. Wong and Steven Toms)

1. Business History and Organisation Theory (Michael Rowlinson)

2. Management Strategies for Health: J. W. Roberts and the Armley Asbestos Tragedy, 1920-1958 (Geoffrey Tweedale)

3. The Proprietorial Theory of the Firm and its Consequences (John Quail)

4. Trust in an Industrial District: the Potteries, c.1850-1900 (Andrew Popp)

With contributions on the historic turn in management studies, workers rights, occupational health, industrial networks and the development of the organisation, practices and principles of large UK businesses, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.

John Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He has published widely in the fields of business, management and industrial history, including ten monographs, six edited collections and over seventy articles and chapters. Most notably, his British Business History, 1720-1994 is still being used in UK universities. He was also the founding editor lã‹