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Experience, perceived economic situation: the logbooks of a limestone manufacturer at the time of the ‘Great Depression’ (1879-1891)

Abstract

To understand how an entrepreneur manages his business, it is necessary to understand how he/she lives and how he/she views the world that surrounds him/her, and more particularly, the economic situation that takes shape day after day.While the economic crisis has changed the context,an industrialist from Lille,JulesÉmile Scrive-Loyer, has been keeping on reporting in his daily diary the conversations that allowed him to obtain the appropriate information for the prosperity of his business. Setbacks and successes of his local rivals,investments made here and there,management of the wokforce and wage policy:these curious practices were common to all heads of business who were eager to be good managers. But the image the economic situation sent back to them was so impenetrable that it reinforced their cautiousness: the future of the linen cloth was so uncertain that it seemeed urgent not to do anything about it. Possibly, the linen industry’s hesitations and apathy were not meaningless with regard to a world of industry, which was partly weakened by the gravity of the economic crisis that shook western Europe in the late nineteenth century.

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