The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective, 1850-1990

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction and overview Part I. Measuring Comparative Productivity Performance: 2. International comparisons of productivity in manufacturing: benchmark estimates by industry 3. Labour productivity in aggregate manufacturing: Britain, the United States and Germany 4. Extending the picture: manufacturing productivity in other industrialised countries 5. Manufacturing and the whole economy Part II. Explaining Comparative Productivity Performance: 6. Technology 7. Economic geography: markets and natural resources 8. Accumulation of physical and human capital 9. Competition and adjustment Part III. Reassessing the Performance of British Industry: 10. The rise of competition from abroad, 1850-1914 11. War and depression, 1914-50 12. Changing markets and technology, 1950-90 13. Concluding comments Bibliography Index.