Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF TABLES
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I SCOPE OF THE INQUIRY
- II SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE STEEL MANUFACTURERS
- III CAREERS OF THE STEEL MANUFACTURERS
- IV SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE NOTTINGHAM HOSIERS
- V CAREERS OF THE HOSIERY MANUFACTURERS
- VI THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW TECHNIQUES IN STEEL-MAKING
- VII HOSIERY INNOVATORS
- VIII THE PUBLIC COMPANY
- Appendix A Selection of firms
- Appendix B List of firms included in steel study
- Appendix C Selection of men for steel study
- Appendix D The hosiery samples
- Appendix E Classification of fathers' occupations
- Appendix F Notes on comparisons with Population Census
- Appendix G Education
- Appendix H Marriages
- Appendix I Careers
- Appendix J Public company tables
- List of Principal Works Cited
- Index of names
- Index of companies
- General index
- PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH
III - CAREERS OF THE STEEL MANUFACTURERS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF TABLES
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I SCOPE OF THE INQUIRY
- II SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE STEEL MANUFACTURERS
- III CAREERS OF THE STEEL MANUFACTURERS
- IV SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE NOTTINGHAM HOSIERS
- V CAREERS OF THE HOSIERY MANUFACTURERS
- VI THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW TECHNIQUES IN STEEL-MAKING
- VII HOSIERY INNOVATORS
- VIII THE PUBLIC COMPANY
- Appendix A Selection of firms
- Appendix B List of firms included in steel study
- Appendix C Selection of men for steel study
- Appendix D The hosiery samples
- Appendix E Classification of fathers' occupations
- Appendix F Notes on comparisons with Population Census
- Appendix G Education
- Appendix H Marriages
- Appendix I Careers
- Appendix J Public company tables
- List of Principal Works Cited
- Index of names
- Index of companies
- General index
- PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH
Summary
The steel manufacturers may be grouped into four general types with respect to their careers, whether those careers were mainly in the steel industry or not. A career has been described as ‘independent’ if the subject founded or helped to found the firm which he controlled in the steel industry, or if he had established and led a firm in another business before he entered the steel industry. The second category comprises men whose major work was in their fathers' firms, whether that firm was in the steel industry or not, and also those who invested in going concerns and whose industrial careers were mainly a product of such investment. Thus these are the men who, in Marshall's terms, might be expected to have ‘profited by traditions as to things, methods and persons’. The third group, salaried administrators, may have held a few shares in a limited company, or even have become partners, but their careers were primarily as employees of limited companies and partnerships and they reached the top by virtue of executive experience rather than investment. Steel manufacturers who had spent most of their lives practising in an independent profession make up the fourth group. In Table 19 the steel manufacturers in each period are classified into these four main career types, to which reference will be made throughout this chapter.
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- Information
- British IndustrialistsSteel and Hosiery 1850–1950, pp. 50 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1959