Description

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London. Published date: March 1922. Hardcover; xii, 239 pp; 20 cm. Second edition. Acceptable+ in acceptable+ dust jacket. Original green cloth boards with blind-stamped lettering on front and gilt lettering on spine. Cloth shows light bumping, scuffing, and handling wear; light fraying at head and tail of spine; corners softened. Binding sound. Light foxing to edges of text block. Previous owner signature in ink on front free endpaper. Endpapers and text show scattered foxing and light age toning, heavier to prelims. Original publisher's printed dust jacket in blue with black lettering. Jacket shows significant edge wear with multiple chips and losses along spine ends and edges, closed tears, creasing, and general surface soiling and age toning. Spine panel heavily toned with some chipping at top and bottom; front and rear panels largely intact. Now in an archival quality removable Brodart cover. Analytical study of economic and social conditions in Great Britain in the immediate post First World War period. Jones examines the structural causes of industrial dislocation and reconstruction, focusing on industrial organisation, labour relations, monopoly, wages, prices, profits, and currency. Emphasizes the interrelation of individual economic ambition and social welfare, with discussion of trade unions, methods of remuneration, industrial unrest, and the economic system before the war. Based in part on public lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow. A note to the second edition states that only minor corrections were made and that the core principles remain unchanged. Contents include: Growth of the Modern Industrial Problem; Industrial Organisation; Labour Organisation; The System before the War; Economic Reactions of the War; Economic Reorganisation; Wages and Distribution; Index.