Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry : Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860–1914 (Hardcover)

List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Background; 2. Technological change; 3. Performance; 4. Rags, esparto and wood: entrepreneurship and the choice of raw materials; 5. The Anglo-American labour productivity gap; 6. Unions and manning practices in Britain and America; 7. Raw materials, women, and labour-saving machinery: the Anglo-American gap, 1860?90; 8. Technological divergence: the Anglo-American gap, 1890?1913; 9. Free trade and paper; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.