The 'portly grabbers of 75 per cent. '
Capital investment in the British entertainment industry, 1885-1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22891825 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Crowhurst (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 107-123 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leisure Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-4367 • E-ISSN: 1466-4496 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02614360110036089 |
| OpenAlex | W2034275051 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper takes as its starting point the assertion that our increasingly sophisticated analyses of the consumption of commercialized leisuse in Victorian and Edwardian Britain have outstripped our knowledge of the economic processes involved in its production. This paper attempts to address this imbalance though a systematic study of patterns of investment in the entertainment industry based on a quantitative analysis of music hall company records. It explores when investment in the entertainment industry intensified who provided this investment and why. The impact of limited liability legislation on investment is considered. It is argued that a narrowly capitalist attitude to investment was more evident in entertainment than in other sectors of the leisure industry. The financing of the most highly capitalized music hall companies (primarily located in major cities) became integrated into wider circuits of domestic industrial capital investment. Nevertheless, more traditional patterns of investment based on informal and local sources of capital continued to be significant in lower-cost locations.
Business · Capital (architecture) · Consumption (sociology) · Economics · Economy · Entertainment · Entertainment industry · Geography · Investment (military) · Legislation · Point (geometry) · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Theater, Performance, and Music History
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Pay Up and Play the Game
The politics and poetics of modern British Leisure
The Victorians at Play
Pay up and Play the Game
Conspiracies of Meaning
Sleeping Partnership and Limited Liability, 1850-18561
The Economics of a Sports Industry
The Provincial Stock Exchanges, 1830-1870
The Denomination and Character of Shares, 1855-1885
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |