The Emergence of the Professional Manager in the Scottish Coal Industry, 1760–1815

Baron F. Duckham

Business History Review, 1969, vol. 43, issue 1, 21-38

Abstract: In the mid-eighteenth century, the Scottish coal industry was characterized by small pits, lagging technology, serf labor, and owner management. Thus, severe bottlenecks in the supply of responsible managerial personnel occurred when the market expanded as the result of the establishment of coke-using iron works and the growth of urban centers in the last four decades of the century. By 1815, however, the Scottish industry had seen the rise of large firms, an advance in technology, the abolition of serf labor, and the attainment of near self-sufficiency in the supply of essential professional managers.

Date: 1969
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