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
Appendix I - Careers
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 sources which have been used for information on the careers of the steel manufacturers include: obituaries and biographical dictionaries, shareholder lists, marriage certificates, membership lists of engineering societies. For the hosiery industry few obituaries were found. Local directories and school records have supplied information as well as company files and marriage certificates.
To get a complete picture of the early careers of recent businessmen, it would be necessary to supplement the documentary sources used in this study by a direct approach to industry or industrialists. Since an obituary, however brief, usually supplies the clues which enable us to use other documentary sources, the careers of many of the men in our last samples, who are still alive, cannot be covered in detail. The gaps are greater in the 1953 steel sample than in the 1952 hosiery sample because for the latter industry area directories and company files yielded more information, particularly on early careers.
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- British IndustrialistsSteel and Hosiery 1850–1950, pp. 243 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1959