The yearbook contains statistical indicators derived and compiled from numerous different sources. Every effort has been to provide a collection of data relevant to the analysis of developments within each of the following markets. Shipping, Shipbuilding, ports and sea canals.
There are two main alternative explanations in the literature for the patterns of financial reporting during the period of the British Industrial Revolution (BIR). Rob Bryer sees the new social relations of production in which manufacturing entrepreneurs strove to increase the productivity of wage-labour as leading to a distinct capitalist “calculative mentality”, focused on the return on …