First published in 1920, Chaos and Order in Industry studies the causes and solutions to labour strikes as well as inadequacies in industry organizations. It proposes that the problems afflicting industry and labour does not only affect the working class, but also affects the middle and the upper class who may be unable to realize the connection due to their class prejudice. It states that the industry needs to comply with human standards of value by which it is being judged. This book will be of interest to students of economics and history.
1. The cause of strikes 2. Motives in industry 3. The reconstruction of profiteering 4. The guild solution 5. Coal 6. Railways 7. "Encroaching control" versus "industrial peace" 8. Engineering and shipbuilding 9. Cotton and building 10. Distribution and the consumer 11. The finance of industry 12. The real class structure Appendices
Biography
G. D. H. Cole
