Consequences of Technological Change: the Case of the Shipbuilding Industry

Richard Harrison

Chapter 10 in The Employment Consequences of Technological Change, 1983, pp 157-173 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Despite an awakening of interest in the last decade, it remains true that the shipbuilding industry has attracted less attention from economists and economic historians than its importance to the economy over the last century has deserved. One important reason for this has been the very close link between the shipbuilding and shipping industries, reflected in the existence of close financial and organisational ties between shipbuilders and shipowners and shipping companies throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Robertson, 1974). In the light of Britain’s considerable dominance of world trade throughout this period (Hoffmann, 1955, p. 81), economic historians have concentrated on the study of the shipping industry rather than the capital goods industry which supplied it (Jones, 1957, pp. 7–8).

Keywords: Technological Change; Technical Innovation; Employment Consequence; Shipping Industry; American Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06089-4_11

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