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Frontmatter --Contents --Tables --Preface --Introduction: Leaving England --1. Agrarian Myths of English Immigrants --2. British Immigrants in the Old Northwest, 1815-1860 --3. Who Were the English and Scots Emigrants to the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century? --4. Emigration from the British Isles to the United States of America in 1831 --5. Depression Emigrants: Who Went Where from the British Isles in 1841? --6. Was the American West a Safety Valve for Lancashire? --7. Englishwomen in America in the Nineteenth Century: Expectations and Reality --Index

4. MARRIAGES, PEERAGES AND WILLSCHAPTER III CAREERS OF THE STEEL MANUFACTURERS; I. EARLY EXPERIENCE; 2. EXPERIENCE IN INDUSTRY; 3. EXPERIENCE IN THE FIRM; 4. EXPERIENCE IN INDUSTRY AND IN FIRM OF PROFESSIONAL MEN; 5. AGE AND LENGTH OF SERVICE; CHAPTER IV SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE NOTTINGHAM HOSIERS; I. THE HOSIERY INDUSTRY ON THE EVE OF THE FACTORY; (a) The middlemen; (b) The merchant hosiers; 2. FATHERS OF FACTORY HOSIERS; (a) The first generation; (b) The hosiers in a period of adversity; (c) The hosiers since the First World War; 3. PLAGE OF BIRTH; 4. EDUCATION; 5. MARRIAGES

Originally published in 1959, this book surveys the changes in the social origins and career patterns of the leaders of two British industries during the previous century. The biographies of about 1000 managing partners and executive directors from the hosiery industry are pieced together from a variety of sources. Changes in social origins and career patterns are analysed and comparisons made between the leaders of these two very different industries in an attempt to isolate the influence of industry's size and capital requirements on management recruitment. Where possible, comparisons are also made with various studies of American industrial leaders and with other investigations of British industrialists. The book attempts to provide an empirical basis for generalisations about British industrial leadership during the century in which her role in world manufacturing was transformed from that of quasi-monopolist to one of competitor with many other countries