The Problem of Productivity in British Industry, 1870-1914

Derek H. Aldcroft and Harry W. Richardson
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Derek H. Aldcroft: University of Leicester
Harry W. Richardson: University of Kent

Chapter 2 in The British Economy 1870–1939, 1969, pp 126-140 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is now generally accepted by most students that the period 1870-1914 saw a retardation in British economic growth. The rate of growth of nearly all the major economic indices—exports, total output, industrial production and productivity—diminish or decelerate in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Table 1 presents

Keywords: Productivity Growth; Capital Stock; Capital Accumulation; Technical Progress; Coal Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1969
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15346-6_5

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