Introduction -- Industry and estates on Tyneside -- Development of estate accounting in England -- Estates as productive/non-productive investments -- Accounting as an effective/ineffective aid to management -- Estate organization and reporting needs -- Role of the proprietor -- Integration --...

Business organization and the British economy in the 1920s -- Government policy and the rationalization of industry in the 1920s -- The Labour government and the rationalization of industry, 1929-31 -- The national government and industry, 1931-9 -- The reorganization of coal -- The...