Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865 : the industrial transformation
2020
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By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the seven home dockyards of the British Royal Navy employed a workforce of nearly 16,000 men and some women. On account of their size, dockyards add much to our understanding of developing social processes as they pioneered systems of recruitment, training and supervision of large-scale workforces. From 1815-1865 the make-up of those workforces changed with metal working skills replacing wood working skills as dockyards fully harnessed the use of steam and made the conversion from constructing ships of timber to those of iron. The impact on industrial relations and on the environment of the yards was enormous. Concentrating on the yard at Chatham, this book examines how the day-to-day running of a major centre of industrial production changed during this period of transition.
Main title:
Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865 : the industrial transformation / edited by Philip MacDougall.
Author:
MacDougall, Philip, editor
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2020.
Collation:
428 pages.
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Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781911423836 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1172264
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