Objectionable Parasites’
The Crown Agents and the Purchase of Crown Colony Government Stores, 1880–1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8418331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Sunderland (a Wolfson College , Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 21-47 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00076799900000343 |
| PMID | 19455770 |
| OpenAlex | W2047506638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Two major debates in the literature, productivity performance and the decline of the cotton industry, are joined in the analysis presented in this article on the attempts to raise productivity through the introduction of the more looms per weaver system in cotton weaving in the inter-war years. We find that the limited resultant changes were the outcome of understandable predisposition to maintain co-operative behaviour which meant that productivity enhancing schemes with long term potential were sacrificed for more modest schemes which preserved consensus in the short term
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |