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Consequences of Technological Change: the Case of the Shipbuilding Industry

In: The Employment Consequences of Technological Change

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  • Richard Harrison

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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).

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  • Richard Harrison, 1983. "Consequences of Technological Change: the Case of the Shipbuilding Industry," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Derek L. Bosworth (ed.), The Employment Consequences of Technological Change, chapter 10, pages 157-173, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-06089-4_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06089-4_11
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