Awards

• Winner of Wadsworth Prize 1995.
• Winner of Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History 1995.

Overview

The book focuses on the historical evolution of firms, and industry leaders and their strategies. Sheffield's experience is then related to current historical and economic debates about industrial structure, entrepreneurship and UK decline. Sheffield is revealed (with some important qualifications) as a remarkably enduring and successful centre; and also a highly complex one, which cannot be fitted easily into present theories of mass production and entrepreneurial failure.

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<br> The remarkable history if Sheffield and its steel industry has at last found a worthy author, Geoffrey Tweedale, and the result is a supeb book...It is a truly amazing account, brilliantly researched and written, which describes how a tradition of manufacturing iron tools and the development of crucible steelmaking led to the largest concentration of steel industries in the world. --Materials World<br> In this excellent book, Geoffrey Tweedale provides a comprehensive assessment of the development of businesses in the 'steel city' of Sheffield from the mid-eighteenth century to the present....Rich in empirical detail, and combining an impressive range of both primary and secondary sources, Steel City is given the recognition it deserves within the history of British steelmaking. --Business History Review<br> This excellent book manages to be both scholarly and a pleasure to read...This book can be most warmly recommended to business historians and indeed to all who are fascinated

The remarkable history if Sheffield and its steel industry has at last found a worthy author, Geoffrey Tweedale, and the result is a supeb book...It is a truly amazing account, brilliantly researched and written, which describes how a tradition of manufacturing iron tools and the development of crucible steelmaking led to the largest concentration of steel industries in the world. --Materials World<br> In this excellent book, Geoffrey Tweedale provides a comprehensive assessment of the development of businesses in the 'steel city' of Sheffield from the mid-eighteenth century to the present....Rich in empirical detail, and combining an impressive range of both primary and secondary sources, Steel City is given the recognition it deserves within the history of British steelmaking. --Business History Review<br> This excellent book manages to be both scholarly and a pleasure to read...This book can be most warmly recommended to business historians and indeed to all who are fascinated by Britain's alleged long-term economic failure. --Business History<br> This is and important book, rich in empirical detail, wide-ranging in its historical insights, and theoretically robust...a major achievement. --The Albion<br> .,. impressively researched and rendered in vigorous prose...Superbly produced and with an excellent bibliography. --Choice<br>

This three-part study provides the definitive story of the steel industry in Sheffield from the era of Huntsman's crucible to the Iraqi 'Supergun'. The author has produced a fine portrait of this aspect of the industrial history of Sheffield ... he provides a detailed record and analysis of the changes the city has experienced. However, this is not just a local study but includes wider discussion of some of the more general reasons for British industrial decline. Its breadth of coverage and detail make it likely to remain the standard reference work on the industry in Sheffield for many decades to come. * Richard Perren, University of Aberdeen, Labour History Review, Vol. 61, No. 3 Winter 1996 * In this excellent book ... Tweedale has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complexity of steel making technology and the innovating process of diffusion in the tradition of Nathan Rosenberg. * Business History Review * Excellent volume ... Tweedale has provided a fascinating account and has shown how a local case study can be effectively used to make a major contribution to the debate on Britain's alleged decline. In this context Steel City looks set to join Pollard's History of Labour in Sheffield as a seminal work on a key centre of British industrial capitalism. * Economic History Review * This excellent book manages to be both scholarly and a pleasure to read. It provides a masterly survey of the rise and adjustments of an almost unrivalled localised complex of steel and steel using trades which until now has never been comprehensively analysed ... This book can be most warmly recommended to business historians and indeed to all who are fascinated by Britain's alleged long-term economic failure and especially to those who are sceptical of simple explanations of either growth or decline. * Business History * The argument is perforce a complicated one, impressively researched and rendered in vigorous prose ... Superbly produced and with an excellent bibliography, this volume belongs in graduate libraries serving programs in British and industrial history. * Choice * The remarkable history of Sheffield and its steel industry has at last found a worthy author, Geoffrey Tweedale, and the result is a superb book ... It is a truly amazing account, brilliantly researched and written, which describes how a tradition of manufacturing iron tools and the development of crucible steelmaking led to the largest concentration of steel industries in the world. * Materials World * This is a carefully researched and sympathetic study of an industrial district, its institutions and firms through growth, expansion, and, more recently, painful adjustment and change ... The book will be of interest in terms of business economics and history and for those wanting to understand the historical nature of industrial clusters and competitive advantage. * Metals Industry News *

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