Pioneers for profit : foreign entrepreneurship and Russian industrialization, 1885-1913 / John P. McKay

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of City of Liverpool Public Libraries. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Minor library marks remain (internally). Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 442 pp.: maps. Contents; I: Introduction -- I, Sec. 2: Enterprises: Sources and Types -- I, Sec. 3: The Basic Strategy -- I, Sec. 4: Advanced Technology in Steel and Coal -- I, Sec. 5: Patterns of Management -- I, Sec. 6: The Mobilization of Capital -- I, Sec. 7: The Problem of Labor -- I, Sec. 8: Relations with State and Society -- II, Sec. 1: A Pioneering Innovator: The John Cockerill Company in Southern Russia, 1885-1905 -- II, Sec. 2: Boom-Time Speculation: The Rykovskii Coal Company -- II, Sec. 3: The Huta-Bankova Steel Company and the Bonnardel Group -- II, Sec 4: Toward Passive Investment: The Banque De L'Union Parisienne and the Bogatyr Rubber Company, 1910-1914 -- Conclusions. Subjects; Investments, Foreign Soviet Union. Industries. Entrepreneurship Russia History. Private sector Industrialization Russia Economic history 1861-1917. Economic conditions.