The Crawshay Dynasty. A study in industrial organisation and development, 1765-1867
Details:
- Author(s) Addis, John P
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1957
- Pages 184pp; illus
- Publisher University of Wales Press
- Place Published Cardiff
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- Name Management structures adopted
- Name Finance of business
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Early scholarly work on the history of the Crawshay business with a focus on contributions of individual leaders. Chapters include; 'Anthony Bacon and Richard Crawshay'; 'William Crawshay and the crisis of disunion'; 'Crawshay policy in slump and prosperity, 1810-1834'; 'William Crawshay II and the solution of internal problems'; 'The triumph of conservatism, 1834-1867'; 'Epilogue, 1867-1902'. Appendices include: 1] Family tree descending from William Crawshay, 1713-66, and Elizabeth Nicholson, 1714-74; 2] 'Some aspects of Crawshay finance' [pp155-74] dealing, inter alia, with their finance of the business and giving p&ls for different sites inc Cyfarthfa and Hirwaun, 1811-67. Includes much about the contributions of: Richard 1, 1739-1810; Richard II, 1786-1859; Robert, 1817-79, William I, 1764-1834, William II, 1788-1867; Robert Moses II