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MODERN INDUSTRIAL TENDENCIES

by Chas. W. Macara

Published by Sherratt & Hughes. 2nd. 1927

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.

Stock no. 2120777

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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

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