Author: Professor Michael BallPublish On: 2001-04-26
In response, the water companies began to collude. Following the lead of the New River and the East London Company in 1815, all the companies had agreed by 1817 to operate within specific areas and significantly raise their charges.5 In ...
Author: Professor Michael Ball
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134540303
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 481
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This is the first comprehensive survey of the economic development of the world's first great industrial metropolis. Modern theories of urban economics are used to shed new light on the process of change in the city.
At the time of incorporation, parliament determined two major aspects ofthe activityofthe water supply companies. ... In 1806–7, parliament authorised the incorporation of the West Middlesex Company and the East London Company and the ...
Author: Roderick Floud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316025581
Category: History
Page: 848
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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around the world to produce a set of volumes which are both a lucid textbook for students and an authoritative guide to the subject. The text pays particular attention to the explanation of quantitative and theory-based enquiry, but all forms of historical research are used to provide a comprehensive account of the development of the British economy. Volume I covers the period 1700–1860 when Britain led the world in the process of industrialisation. It will be an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students in history, economics and other social sciences.
For example , in the first decade of the century in London , there were three water companies but , as the 1821 ... London was fairly well ' districted ' by the water and gas companies , 14 As quoted in Clapham , Economic History , pp .
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521417074
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 1032
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The process of urbanisation and suburbanisation in Britain from the Victorian period to the twentieth century.
This is the first comprehensive survey of the economic development of the world's first great industrial metropolis. Modern theories of urban economics are used to shed new light on the process of change in the city.
Author: Michael Ball
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415246910
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 470
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This is the first comprehensive survey of the economic development of the world's first great industrial metropolis. Modern theories of urban economics are used to shed new light on the process of change in the city.
The next decades were marked by an attempt to divide London into one - company monopoly districts and at the same time to regulate the quality of water and service . But important issues such as the responsibility of water companies for ...
London, 1985. Faith in the City. Report of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Priority Areas. ... Historical Overview The past 150 years have witnessed the development of public utility systems in the areas of gas, ...
Author: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780195105070
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 2812
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"While many dictionaries of economics are available for purchase, this title is unique because of its greater depth of treatment. It offers histories and backgrounds on a significant number of economic topics, not only for the United States but also for other countries and geographic regions. Entries cover such topics as economic concepts; markets and industries; economic development in various countries; biographical essays on key people in economics and business; business products, including coffee, gas, and oil; and the economic aspects of historical events and time periods, including the Great Depression."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.
The Changing Water Business , London , CRI , 97–118 . Harrison , D. ( 1994 ) , ' Water economics just won't wash ' , Observer , 24 July , 11 . Hassan , J. ( 1984 ) , ' The impact and development of the water supply in Manchester ...
Author: John Hassan
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719043085
Category: England
Page: 232
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Examines the changing way in which water has been used in England and Wales since the industrial revolution, through the Victorian period and up to the present day.
(1976), Management Strategy and Business Development: An Historical and Comparative Study, London: Macmillan. ... the British Water Industry in the Nineteenth Century”, Economic History Review, 38(4), 53147.
Author: Robert Millward
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135970536
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 294
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the state emerged as a major player in the economies of the Western World. This important new volume provides an economic history for the period 1815-1939 of state/business relations in the major powers: France, Germany, Japan, Russia, UK and the USA. The book challenges the traditional story that the scale of state intervention reflected the degree to which each country was ideologically committed to laissez-faire, and which also tended to assume that governments were interested in economic growth and raising average living standards. Robert Millward gives a rather different perspective, arguing that the scale of state intervention and the differences across countries were motivated more by considerations of external defence and internal unification than by any notions of promoting economic growth or adherence to laissez-faire. This book provides, for the first time, an integrated economic history of these state /business relations in the major powers in the period 1815-1939, and offers a completely new perspective on the links between tariff policies, state enterprise in manufacturing, the treatment of the peasantry, regulation of railways, taxation of the business sector, policies on cartels, trusts and competition.
London. Berridge, V. 1990. Health and medicine. In Thompson (ed.), vol. III. Broadberry, S. 2004. Human capital and skills. ... Ties that Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks 1800– 1990. Pittsburgh, Penn.
Author: Roderick Floud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316061169
Category: Business & Economics
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A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.
In Cyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature., ed. A. Rees. London: Longman. Weale, James. 1820. Water monopoly. The case of the water companies stated and examined, or, The calm address dissected with ...
Author: Leslie Tomory
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9781421422046
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 331
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How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply industry on earth? Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand, particularly in the city’s wealthy West End. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks. The city’s water infrastructure even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks. The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors that created and sustained this remarkable industry. Tomory examines how the joint-stock form became popular with water companies, providing a stable legal structure that allowed for expansion. He also explains how the roots of the London water industry’s divergence from the Continent and even from other British cities was rooted both in the size of London as a market and in the late seventeenth-century consumer revolution. This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.