Industry and Politics
Details:
- Author(s) Mond, Alfred
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1927
- Pages 337pp
- Publisher Macmillan
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Industrial rationalisation
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
- Name Worker / employee ownership, co-partnership, profit sharing, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Collected speeches and papers presented by the writer during his career. He was Sir Alfred Mond, later 1st Lord Melchett, 1868-1930, who was Managing Director of both Brunner Mond & Co Ltd and of Mond Nickel Co Ltd. 'The whole range of subjects is concerned with economic phenomena of the last few years and the present time, industry and its future, the economic trend of the present day, remedies for social ills which are generally acknowledged, the solution of which presents most difficult problems, and examination of the fallacies of the socialist ideals, and attempts to put forward a programme of practical reform with a connecting link of thought running through the various chapters'. The chapters include: 'Trade, currency, industry and unemployment'; 'The unemployment problem'; 'Co-partnership and profit sharing'; 'Arbitration and industrial disputes'; 'Industrial research'; 'Fuel technology'; 'Future of the gas industry'; 'Rationalisation of industry'; 'International cartels'; 'The British Empire as an economic unit'; 'Why socialism must fail'