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British Business and Protection 1903-1932 (Hardcover)
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British Business and Protection 1903-1932 (Hardcover)
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This is the first in-depth study of the involvement of businessmen
in the campaign for Tariff Reform, the most important and pervasive
political debate on economic policy in the first three decades of
the twentieth century. Previously published work on Tariff Reform
has concentrated on its political or 'social-imperialist'
dimensions, and our knowledge of businessmen's motivations,
objectives, and strategies has been under-developed. The book is
organized around an analysis of the pressure and propaganda groups
directed, or supposedly directed, by protectionist businessmen
themselves. Detailed treatment of Joseph Chamberlain's Tariff
Commission before the Great War, and of successor organizations
such as the Empire Development Union and the Empire Industries
Association, provide a thread of continuity from Chamberlain's
Birmingham speech in 1903 to the Import Duties Act in 1932. Less
overtly political bodies, such as the Federation of British
Industries, the National Union of Manufacturers, and the chambers
of commerce, are also studied. The book includes the first detailed
investigation into the development of protectionism during the
First World War, and presents a new analysis of the turbulent
events of 1929-1932. Andrew Marrison gives particular attention to
the questions of economic motivation and industry-alignment - areas
where oversimplification and generalization have been common - and
to the relationship between business participants and their
political mentors. The general conclusion is one of a 'primacy of
politics', a fragmentation of the corporate ideal, in which the
lack of influence of the businessman, and especially of the
manufacturer, in British politics and Britishsociety meant that the
Edwardians' fear of protectionist vested interests was highly
exaggerated. The cunning, grasping businessman of legend is found
to be little more than a fiction.
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