A Victorian entrepreneur.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Ramsay, Allan | Copyright information

IN these days of the world village, of the global economy, of megabuck deals between multinational conglomerates, of takeovers and asset stripping, when men and women are classified as 'human resources' and 'units of production', management is 'targeted' and the language of commerce and industry becomes increasingly rarefied, impersonal and coded, it might be worth casting a glance back at an age which carried Britain from the Industrial Revolution to its primacy as the world's lea...

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