Capital and Steam Power

by John Lord

London, 1923

Ed. From the University of Rochester Steam Library Collection -http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/ - downloaded 2006 (JmcV - May 2008)

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Contents

Preface

I. INTRODUCTION

1. The Records of Boulton & Watt

2. The Origins of Capital

3. Early English Trade and Industry

4. The Seventeenth Century

5. Beginning of the Eighteenth Century

6. The Early History of Capitalism in England

II. GENERAL STATE OF INDUSTRY, 1700 - 1750

1. Introductory

2. Coal-Mines and Iron-Works

3. Tin-Mines

4. Hardware

5. Pottry

6. Salt Manufacture

III. CAPITAL AND LABOUR, 1700- 1750

1. Population : The Growth of the proletariat

2. The Economic Position of Labour

3. Capital, 1700 - 1750 : The Growth of Wealth

4. The Employment of Capital

5. Banking, 1750

IV. THE INVENTION OF THE STEAM-ENGINE

1. Watt's Early Inventions

2. Roebuck

V. WATT'S PARTNERSHIP WITH BOULTON

1. Boulton : The Hardware Manufacturer

2. The Significance of the Partnership

3. History of the Partnership

4. Early Development and Capitalization of the Firm

VI. CAPITALIZATION OF THE FIRM OF BOULTON & WATT

VII. CAPITAL IN OTHER INDUSTRIES

1. Introductory

2. Potteries and Wedgewood

VIII. THE PENETRATION OF INDUSTRY BY STEAM-POWER

IX. CAPITAL IN 1800

1. Amount

2. Steam-Power and Capital

3. The Capitalist Class

X. LABOUR IN 1800

XI. INDUSTRY AND FOREIGN TRADE

XII. CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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