By David Jeremy
ISBN-10: 0203025350
ISBN-13: 9780203025352
ISBN-10: 0203132025
ISBN-13: 9780203132029
ISBN-10: 0415168988
ISBN-13: 9780415168984
The connection of economics, capitalism and wealth to the ethics and morality of faith has intrigued and challenged policymakers, strain teams, theologians, sociologists, economists and historians for hundreds of years. the following David Jeremy addresses those questions within the context of contemporary Britain. His initial survey of historic controversies inside faith and enterprise, and the accompanying chronology of important occasions because the 1770s are an exceptionally beneficial advent for these unexpected with the sector.
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Thomas S. Ashton, Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution (Manchester, 1924), pp. 211–25; T. S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1830 (London, 1948), pp. 17–22. 18. Everett E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change (London, 1962); Flinn, ‘Social Theory’; Francois Crouzet, The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 52–4. 19. Mark Casson, ‘Entrepreneurship and Business Culture’, in Jonathan Brown and Mary B. Rose (eds), Entrepreneurship, Networks and Modern Business (Manchester, 1993), p.
Profit-sharing originated apparently with Henry Currer Briggs, colliery owner and Unitarian of Wakefield, Yorkshire (item 24). 40 By 1912 199 profit-sharing schemes had been started, of which 163 were abandoned. 41 Historians have debated whether profit-sharing was anything more than a capitalist device to seduce workers away from trade unions and seal their loyalty to corporate proprietors and managements. 44 The Crossley family of Halifax, carpet manufacturers and Congregationalists who employed 4,100 people when they converted the business to a public company in 1864, sought a different answer to the capital–labour conflict (item 23).
51 RELIGION AND BRITISH INDUSTRIAL DECLINE The debate about Britain’s relative industrial decline reached a new intensity in the 1970s when a number of economic measures clearly showed that Britain was falling behind other capitalist economies. Economic historians pointed out that this relative decline had begun a century earlier. Soon the search for causation was sending them down networks of research trails. One of these focused on the quality of Britain’s entrepreneurs in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
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