Economic and Social History of the World War. Cotton Control Board

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  • Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
  • Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
  • Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration

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The writer was Sir Hubert D Henderson, 1890-1952, economist and Secretary of the Cotton Control Board, 1917-19. Deals with control and management of the cotton industry, its price regime, productive capacity and labour after the imposition of controls on raw cotton imports as non strategic materials at a time of acute pressure on wartime shipping. Has sections on 1] 'the Board'; 2] 'the scheme of control'; 3] 'unemployment benefits and the rota system'; 4] 'wages questions and the Board'; 5] 'new scheme and the wages settlement of May 1918'; 6] 'campaign against the Board'