Enterprise

Abstract

‘And yet a great deal of money is made here’, said a local businessman to Alexis de Tocqueville when the latter was regretting Manchester. The criticisms launched at the ugliness — as distinct from the squalor — of industrial Britain were the reactions of a minority to a phenomenon which was accepted, and even enthused over, by the majority of their fellow-citizens, like the writer of this entry in the ‘Ordnance Gazetteer’ on the industries of the coal and ironfields of the Monklands, south-east of Glasgow.