The British Industrial Decline

Floud, Roderick; Dormois, Jean-Pierre; Dintenfass, Michael

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“…Yet their replacement by locomotives would have required the driving of new roadways, which would have both incurred considerable costs and interfered with current mining operations. 56 Inter-war British 'mechanized mines' thus constituted a technological compromise, aimed at achieving the maximum benefits from upstream mechanization within the capacity constraints of low throughput haulage systems. Between 1928 and 1936 the proportion of output mechanically cut and conveyed rose from 26 to 55 per cent and 12 to 48 per cent, respectively.…”

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Path dependence, fragmented property rights and the slow diffusion of high throughput technologies in inter-war British coal mining

Scott¹

2006

Business History

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This article examines the importance of path dependence effects in impeding the diffusion of high throughput mechanized mining systems in the British coal industry. It demonstrates that the industry had become 'locked in' to low throughput underground haulage technology, on account of institutional interrelatedness between Britain's traditional practice of extensive in-seam mining and its unique system of fragmented, privately owned mineral royalties. Fragmented royalties prevented the concentration of workings and introduction of high throughput main haulage systems that underpinned the rapid productivity growth of European producers. Meanwhile, technical interrelatedness between the haulage systems taking coal to the pit shaft and operations further 'upstream' created bottlenecks which both slowed the overall rate of mechanization and limited the productivity gains from the mechanization that did occur.

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Path dependence, fragmented property rights and the slow diffusion of high throughput technologies in inter-war British coal mining

Scott¹

2006

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“…5 Within the entreaty to responsibility, there is an often unacknowledged 'slippage' from solely epistemic criteria to equally fundamental, if not prior, considerations as to the work, exercise, or practice of writing history. 6 That history be spoken and/or written 'responsibly' and with 'integrity' is an ethical demand. These ethical demands prefigure the interminability of historical writing.…”

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The Ethical Space of Historiography

Jackson

2001

J Historical Sociology

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This paper explores the notion that the work of historiography, though centrally bound to epistemic concerns, is always already engaged as an ethical exercise in a necessary, yet impossible, promise of justice to the other. Framing this notion is Derrida's work on justice and the law. The inter-relationships of evidence, integrity and responsibility are considered as three ethically constitutive moments for the historian. The paper concludes by briefly situating W.G. Sebald's descriptive novel, The Rings of Saturn, as exemplary of the ethically reflexive instance of the historiographic exercise.

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Land ownership and social change in late nineteenth‐century Britain

Smith¹

2000

The Economic History Review

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The British Industrial Decline

Cited by 4 publications

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Path dependence, fragmented property rights and the slow diffusion of high throughput technologies in inter-war British coal mining

Path dependence, fragmented property rights and the slow diffusion of high throughput technologies in inter-war British coal mining

The Ethical Space of Historiography

Land ownership and social change in late nineteenth‐century Britain

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