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Corporate Space
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Moore, R, Corporate Space, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, Routledge, Seybold, M and Chihara, M (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 210-218. ISBN 9781138190870 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
The incorporated joint-stock company, ancestor of the modern corporation, developed
slowly and unevenly in Victorian Britain. Its emergence as a business form and as a legal form
was controversial, contested, and not at all inevitable; it was not the product of an emergent
liberal–capitalist consensus, nor an urgent economic necessity (Ireland 2010; Loftus 2009;
Taylor 2006). In 1844, there were only 947 joint-stock companies in England, and by 1885,
after decades of corporate law liberalization, such companies only represented between 5%
and 10% of all English business organizations ( Johnson 2006, p. 219). Nonetheless, the incorporated
joint-stock company was a persistent source of cultural anxiety. As an impersonal
vehicle for transacting business beyond the boundaries of a knowable community, the incorporated
joint-stock company collaborated in the incomplete and fitful disentanglement of
business from personal relationships, personal character, and personal responsibility.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | literature, economics, corporations, corporate space |
Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Literary studies |
Research Field: | North American literature |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Communication |
Objective Field: | Literature |
UTAS Author: | Moore, R (Dr Robbie Moore) |
ID Code: | 117798 |
Year Published: | 2019 (online first 2018) |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2017-06-27 |
Last Modified: | 2018-12-19 |
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