'Businessmen, politics and municipal socialism' in J Turner (ed), Businessmen and Politics. Studies of business activity in British politics, 1900-1945
Details:
- Author(s) Roberts, Richard
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1984
- Pages pp20-32
- Publisher Heinemann Educational Books
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
- Name Business & politics inc lobbying
- Name Business interest representation & co-operation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with municipalisation and the debate in the late 1890s and first decade of the 20th century about the principle of municipal ownership of public utilities, in particular the activities by business interests at Parliamentary level to 'stifle' the sector; the opposition in particular by tramway and electricity businesses including British Electric Traction Co Ltd; the role of the Municipal Trading Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce