An Early Experiment in Industrial Organization: History of the Firm of Boulton and Watt 1775-1805

by Eric Roll

Overview

First Published in 1968. This is an account of the Boulton-Watt partnership and adds another item to the now growing series of writings on the history of individual firms or individual pioneers of modern business. The choice of this particular firm is due to three facts : the great importance of the enterprise ; the concentration in Birmingham of the bulk of its records (the completeness and state of preservation of which is almost unique), and the lack, notwithstanding the existence of several books on the subject, of any exhaustive history from the economist's standpoint of what must be regarded as the foremost engineering firm of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714613574
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/24/1968
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Boulton and Watt: introductory - the steam engine, the partnership; early business; Cornwall; changing fortunes; general activities. Part 2 Boulton, Watt and Sons: Soho foundry; scientific organization; wages and labour conditions; business policy; conclusion; appendices.