Short-time working and price maintenance: Collusive tendencies in the cotton-spinning industry, 1919-19391

Economic History Review

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 319-343

  Bowden, Sue ^a   Higgins, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLUSIVE ACTIVITY; COTTON INDUSTRY; HISTORICAL STUDY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UK, ENGLAND, LANCASHIRE;

EID: 0031872828     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0289.00093     Document Type: Article

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