1st Edition

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

By Eric Roll Copyright 1968
    348 Pages
    by Routledge

    348 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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.

    Biography

    Eric Roll