Originally published in 1948, this book remains one of the most comprehensive and detailed pictures of the rubber industry. It reviews the rise of the synthetic rubber industry and deals with the competition between natural rubber and synthetic rubber.
Originally published in 1948, this book remains one of the most comprehensive and detailed pictures of the rubber industry. It reviews the rise of the synthetic rubber industry and deals with the competition between natural rubber and synthetic rubber. The period between 1929 and 1942 is considered in greatest detail, but where necessary for an understanding of the problems of the industry, its early history and more recent developments are also covered. Within the field of natural rubber, special attention is given to the relative and competitive positions of estates and of small-holdings, and the treatment of smallholders under rubber restriction is discussed in some detail.
The work of the International Rubber Regulation Committee and the local administration of rubber restriction are analysed at length in the light of research into the records of the Committee and of various local administrative bodies, and into other official documents and Eastern newspapers.
Arvustused
Original Review of The Rubber Industry:
a very interesting bookwell worth reading. Ruth Cohen, The Economic Journal Vol 59, No. 235 (1949)
This is a valuable book not only for its general conclusions but also for the large amount of detail with which the author supports them. L. A. Mills, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 10, Issue 1 (1950).
1. The Structure of the Industry
2. The Impact of the Depression on
Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies
3. General Review of the Rubber Slump
4. Production During the Slump
5. The Position of the Smallholdings Part 2:
The Establishment of International Regulation
6. Restriction Negotiations and
the International Agreement of 1934
7. The Establishment of Regulation
8.
Early Difficulties, 193435
9. The Scheme in Prosperity and Recession,
193639
10. Administrative Changes and the Renewal of the Scheme
11. Rubber
Regulation During the War, 193941
12. The Planting Provisions of Rubber
Regulation
13. The Criteria of Regulation: Normal Stocks and Efficient
Producers
14. Critical Retrospect Part 4: Labour and Technique
15. Plantation
Labour
16. Developments in Technique Part 5: The Threat of the Monopoly of
Natural Rubber
17. The Rise of Synthetic Rubber
18. Natural Rubber, 194145
19. Prospects and Policies
20. The Position and Prospects of the Malayan
Rubber Industry Appendices: A. The Value of the Agricultural and Mining
Output of Malaya, 1929 and 1932 B: Supplementary Data on the Response of
Producers of Slum Prices (Ch. 3) C: The Data Underlying the Rubber-Rice
Comparison (Ch. 5) D: The Economics of Planting Density E: The Reduction in
Estate Cost, 192933 Statistical Appendices: I Rubber Production, Prices and
Acreages in Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies, 192933 II: The
Statistics of Rubber Regulation, 193441 III: Malayan Migration and
Employment Statistics, 192640
P. T. Bauer (19152002) was a Hungarian-born British development economist.
