Britain's Industrial Future: Being the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Membership of Liberal Industrial Inquiry viii
• Contents x
• List of Tables xii
• Introduction xv
• Book 1 - The Condition of British Industry 1
• Book 1 - The Condition of British Industry 1
• Argument of Book 3
• Chapter I - Before and after the War 5
• Chapter II - A Summary of the Present Position 14
• Chapter III - The Export Trade 21
• Chapter IV - The Nature of the Problem 39
• Chapter V - International Policy and Commerce 47
• Book 2 - The Organisation of Business 59
• Book 2 - The Organisation of Business 59
• Argument of Book 2 61
• Chapter VI - The Public Concern 63
• Chapter VII - The Joint Stock Company 84
• Chapter VIII - Trusts and Trade Associations 93
• Chapter IX - The National Savings 101
• Chapter X - An Economic General Staff 116
• Chapter XI - Business Statistics 121
• Chapter XII - Business Efficiency 126
• Book 3 - Industrial Relations 137
• Book 3 - Industrial Relations 137
• Argument of Book 3 139
• Chapter XIII - Industrial Discontent and Its Causes 143
• Chapter XIV - Collective Bargaining 151
• Chapter XV - The State and Industry 166
• Chapter XVI - The Remuneration of the Worker 181
• Chapter XVII - A Programme of Industrial Co-Operation 205
• Chapter XVIII - The Status of the Worker 226
• Appendix I - Works Councils: Scope of Agreed Rules 238
• Appendix II - Engagement of Labour: Scope of Agreed Terms 239
• Chapter XIX - The Diffusion of Ownership 242
• Book 4 - National Development 263
• Book 4 - National Development 263
• Argument of Book 4 265
• Chapter XX - The Problem of Unemployment 267
• Chapter XXI - A Programme of National Development 280
• Chapter XXII - Roads and Housing 287
• Chapter XXIII - Electricity, Waterways, and Docks 307
• Chapter XXIV - Agriculture, Forestry, and Reclamation 318
• Appendix III - Imports (less Exports1) into United Kingdom of Main Food and Other Agricultural and Raw Products Apparently of the Kind Which Can Be Produced in This Country 339
• Chapter XXV - The Problem of the Coal Industry 341
• Chapter XXVI - Imperial Development 367
• Chapter XXVII - The Rising Generation: Its Education and Employment 379
• Book 5 - National Finance 405
• Book 5 - National Finance 405
• Argument of Book 5 407
• Chapter XXVIII - Currency and Banking 409
• Chapter XXIX - Reform of the National Accounts 418
• Chapter XXX - The Burden of National Taxation 426
• Chapter XXXI - Reform of the Rating System 433
• Summary of Conclusions 451
• Contents 451
• Index 489

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