| Essays in Industry and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: England and France Contributor(s): Harris, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0860783154 ISBN-13: 9780860783152 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - History |
| Dewey: 338.064 |
| LCCN: 91043376 |
| Series: Variorum Collected Studies |
| Physical Information: (1.02 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays is devoted to the industrial history of England and France in the 18th century and concentrates in particular on transfers of technology between them. There are specific studies of technical transfer in the steel, glass and hardware industries, and on the place of the skills of the workmen in the diffusion of technology. Industrial espionage, too, early had its place, and one essay investigates why it was resorted to and how it was carried out. In the new introductory chapter, John Harris surveys the rise of a new range of technologies in England, based on dramatic increase in the use of coal, and emphasises that this was basic to British industrial leadership and a main reason for her expertise being desired abroad. Throughout, the part played by individuals - from inventors and entrepreneurs to managers, ministers and skilled workers - is regarded as essential to the process of industrial development. Ce recueil est vou l'histoire industrielle de l'Angleterre et de la France au 18e si cle et se concentre plus particuli rement sur les transferts de technologie entre les deux pays. Certaines tudes traitent sp cifiquement des changes techniques dans l'industrie de l'acier et celle du verre, ainsi que de l'importance de la comp tence des ouvriers quant la diffusion de la technologie. L'espionage industriel, qui lui aussi a rapidement vu jour, fait le sujet d'un article enqu atant sur sa raison d' atre et les m thodes employ es. Dans le nouveau chap (R)tre d'introduction, John Harris value l'essor d'un nouvel ventail de technologie en Angleterre, bas sur l'augmentation dramatique de la consommation de charbon; il insiste que ce fait tait la base de la pr ponderance industrielle britannique et l'une des raisons principales pour lesquelles son expertise tait si recherch e l' tranger. Le r le jou par l'individu - de l'inventeur l'administrateur en passant par les e |