TY - BOOK AU - Birch,Alan TI - The economic history of the British iron and steel industry, 1784-1879: essays in industrial and economic history with special reference to the development of technology AV - HD9521.5 .B5 1967 U1 - 338.7'30942 PY - 1967/// CY - London PB - Frank Cass KW - Iron industry and trade KW - Steel industry and trade KW - Great Britain N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The book gives particular consideration to discussion of the entrepreneurial function, the labour force and the descriptive and critical accounts of the British iron and steel industry written by foreign observers. It is the first economic history to be written incorporating modern research and analysis of a major British industry during the nineteenth century ER -