Economic and Social History of the World War. Cotton Control Board
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- Author(s) Henderson, Hubert D
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1922
- Pages 76pp; illus
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- 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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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
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'