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Doing It for Themselves: The Steel Company of Wales and the Study of American Industrial Productivity, 1945–1955

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2016

LOUISE MISKELL
LOUISE MISKELL*
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Louise Miskell is professor of history at Swansea University and the author of several books and articles on modern British urban and industrial history. Department of History and Classics, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article examines the efforts of one British steel company to acquire knowledge about American industrial productivity in the first post-World War II decade. It argues that company information-gathering initiatives in this period were overshadowed by the work of the formal productivity missions of the Marshall Plan era. In particular, it compares the activities of the Steel Company of Wales with the Anglo-American Council on Productivity (AACP), whose iron and steel industry productivity team report was published in 1952. Based on evidence from its business records, this study shows that the Steel Company of Wales was undertaking its own international productivity investigations, which started earlier and were more extensive and differently focused from those of the AACP. It makes the case for viewing companies as active participants in the gathering and dissemination of productivity knowledge in Britain’s steel sector after 1945.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 184 - 213
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