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- Title
Continuity, change, and specialization within metropolitan London: the economy of Westminster, 1750-1820.
- Authors
Harvey, Charles; Green, Edmund M.; Corfield, Penelope J.
- Abstract
This article focuses on continuity, change, and specialization within metropolitan London with reference to the economy of Westminster during 1750-1820. Metropolitan London by the later eighteenth century was already one of the largest cities in the world. Such variety testified to the marked division of labour within the metropolitan economy. Business and service specialisms alike were encouraged by ready proximity to London's massive consumer market. One important economic characteristic of London was thus its generation of a flourishing labour market that was both specialized and interdependent. The workings of the metropolis after 1750 have, however, featured remarkably little in the textbooks, whether old or new. However, broad structural continuities do not in themselves prove a lack of importance. On the contrary, London's persistent economic pluralism suggests that its diversified role was remarkably successful. Indeed, as Great Britain's trading empire extended into genuinely global dimensions, London's role at the heart of interlocking regional, national, and international networks became ever more crucial and, simultaneously, diversified.
- Subjects
WESTMINSTER (London, England); LONDON (England); ENGLAND; METROPOLITAN areas; DIVISION of labor; MARKETING; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1999, Vol 52, Issue 3, p469
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0289.00133