The book focuses on the historical evolution of firms, and industry leaders and their strategies. Sheffield's experience is then related to current historical and economic debates about industrial structure, entrepreneurship and UK decline. Sheffield is revealed (with some important qualifications) as a remarkably enduring and successful center; and also a highly complex one, which cannot be fitted easily into present theories of mass production and entrepreneurial failure.

Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield 1743-1993

Business & Money

Tweedale, Geoffrey

Economics

Oxford University Press

Asbestos was once known as the 'magic mineral' because of its ability to withstand flames. Yet since the 1970s, it has become a notorious and feared 'killer dust' that is responsible for thousands of deaths and an epidemic that will continue for many years.

Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard

In the early twentieth century, asbestos had a reputation as a lifesaver. In 1960, however, it became known that even relatively brief exposure to asbestos can cause mesothelioma, a virulent and lethal cancer. Yet the bulk of the world's asbestos was mined after 1960. Asbestos usage in many countries continued unabated. This is the first global history of how the asbestos industry and its allies in government, insurance, and medicine defended the product throughout the twentieth century. It explains how mining and manufacture could continue despite overwhelming medical evidence as to the risks. The argument advanced in this book is that asbestos has proved so enduring because the industry was able to mount a successful defense strategy for the mineral--a strategy that still operates in some parts of the world. This defence involved the shaping of the public debate by censoring, and sometimes corrupting, scientific research, nurturing scientific uncertainty, and using allies in government, insurance, and medicine. The book also discusses the problems of asbestos in the environment, compensating victims, and the continued use of asbestos in the developing world. Its global focus shows how asbestos can be seen as a model for many occupational diseases--indeed for a whole range of hazards produced by industrial societies. The book is based on a wealth of documentary material gained from legal discovery, supplemented by evidence from the authors' visits and researches in the US, the UK, Canada, Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, Australia, Swaziland, and South Africa.

Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival

McCulloch, Jock

The book provides an important contribution to the technological and commercial history of crucible and electric steelmaking by thoroughly examining its development in Sheffield and American centres such as Pittsburgh. It also discusses cutlery, saw and file manufacturing, where the Americans quickly shed Sheffield's traditional technologies and, with the help of superior marketing, established a word lead by 1900. It is also shown, however, that this did not free the US from its dependence on Sheffield steel. Sheffield's innovation in special steelmaking, which began with the Hunstman crucible process in 1742, continued with a series of brilliant 'firsts', which gave the world tool, manganese, silicon, vanadium and stainless steel alloys. Thus the US continued to draw from Sheffield know-how, even in the twentieth century - a transfer of technology that was facilitated by the foundation of Sheffield's own subsidiary firms in America, the history of which is recounted here.

Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence 1830-1930

Cambridge University Press

Concise biographies of over 750 of the most significant business leaders active in the United Kingdom this century. Arranged alphabetically, the articles provide information on birth, education, early business career, major achievements and honors, marriage, wealth and bibliographic citations where

Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Business Leaders

Jeremy, David J.

K G Saur Verlag Gmbh & Co

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Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield 1743-1993

Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard

Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard

Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival

Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence 1830-1930

Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Business Leaders