Dr Martin Wilcox M.Wilcox@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in History
‘To save the industry from complete ruin’: Crisis and response in British fishing 1945-1951
Wilcox, Martin
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Abstract
Fishing is a small, complex and fragmented industry, which arguably exerts political significance disproportionate to its size. This article traces the prolonged period of depression which affected British deep-sea fishing between the wars, and then a more virulent crisis which erupted in the post-war years. It explores how the industry proved unable to respond effectively, requiring intervention from government which followed a similar pattern to that elsewhere in the economy, albeit tailored to the industry’s peculiar circumstances and idiosyncratic nature.
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Wilcox, M. (2021). ‘To save the industry from complete ruin’: Crisis and response in British fishing 1945-1951. Business history, 63(3), 353-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1576634
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 22, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 20, 2019 |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | Feb 6, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 21, 2020 |
Journal | Business History |
Print ISSN | 0007-6791 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 63 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 353-377 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1576634 |
Keywords | Fisheries; Labour; productivity; crisis; reorganisation; industrial policy |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1280010 |
Contract Date | Feb 6, 2019 |
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