British Tinplate Industry. A history
Details:
- Author(s) Minchinton, Walter E
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1957
- Pages 286pp
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Early scholarly work. Has chapters: 'Foundation of the British industry'; 'Britain's monopoly and the American challenge'; 'The tinplate maker and the finance of expansion'; 'The organisation of labour'; 'The intensification of competition, 1919-39'; 'The strip mill'; 'Labour, 1919-39'; 'The passing of the pack mill' and replacement by strip mills. Includes much on the South Wales industry; much business specific information, notably Baldwins Ltd, Briton Ferry Steel Co Ltd, Richard Thomas & Co Ltd; much about labour issues;