Business Enterprise in Modern Britain: From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century.
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Abstract
Part I: The origins of the factory system in Great Britain the family firm in British business in the 18th and 19th centuries financing firms, 1700-1850 big business before 1900. Part II: The corporate economy in Britain British multinationals and British business since 1850 the competitive environment of British business, 1850-1914 concentration and competition in the retail sector c1800-1990 the growth of the firm in the domestic banking sector the State and British business from 1945 nationalization, privatization and regulation investment in human capital and British manufacturing industry to 1990.