MODERN INDUSTRIAL TENDENCIES
Written by Chas. W. Macara
Published by Sherratt & Hughes
in 1927
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MODERN INDUSTRIAL TENDENCIES
Written by Chas. W. Macara.
Stock no. 2120777
2nd.
1927.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Second edition, Enlarged. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Light bumping to corners and spine. A few marks to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown of Baronet Sir Reginald Wingate - founder and governor-general of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Inscription in ink to front endpaper 'From the Author' (no Signature). Compliments slip also clipped to front endpaper - a few rust marks from paperclip. A little foxing and page browning.
Front cover
Contents
- Introductory
- Some New Tendencies in Industry
- International Aspects of the Cotton Industry
- The Cotton Trade and Its Problems
- The "Down and Out" Canard
- Schemes to Improve the Cotton Trade
- Cotton Trade Troubles
- Why We Must Have a Reserve of Cotton
- Our Textile Exports
- The Outlook in the Cotton Trade
- The Interdependence of Textil Trades
- Cotton Trade Prospects
- The Position of the Cotton Trade
- A Half Century of Manchester Life
- Echoes of Old Manchester
- Appendices:
- The International Institute of Agriculture
- Do We Not Owe the Allies More Than They Owe Us?
- A Survey of the Alleged Allied Debts to America
- Control for the Cotton Trade
- Cotton Control Vote
- Cotton Reserve Scheme
- A Forty Years' Record
- Complimentary Luncheon and Presentation
- Sir Charles Macara on the Cotton Trade
- Contents of Second Edition:
- Cotton Suplus Control
- Cotton Trade Sins of Ommission
- How the Cotton Industry was Internationalised
- A Plain Talk to the Cotton Trade
- English Spinners and the 1926 Cotton Crop
- Cotton and the Mississippi Floods
- A Cotton Link of Friendship
- How Lancashire Can Regain Her Former Prosperity
- Why A Reserve of Cotton is Essential
- British Trade Prospects
- Short Time
- Recollections of Bygone Manchester
- The New Spirit in Industry
- Appendices to the Second Edition:
- Work and Wages in the Cotton Trade
- Why Not A Moratorium for Cotton Mills?
- India's Fiscal Policy
- Cotton Trade Prospects
- Export Trade's Difficulties
- Operatives' Interests Not Considered
- Sir Charles Macara on the Trade Unions Bill
- Russia's Textile Equipment
- A Word for the Middleman
- Cotton Gambling
- Address to American Farmers in Manchester