The Chrome Trust

The Creation of an International Cartel, 1908–38

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8419984
AutoresIan Phimister (University of Cape Town, autor de correspondencia), I R Phimister (University of Cape Town)
Año1996
Volumen38
Número1
Páginas77-89
Fecha de publicación1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBusiness History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00076799600000004
OpenAlexW1994762609
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

This article is concerned to trace the origins, development and structure of chrome mining and marketing. It pays close attention to the key role played by Edmund Davis in the creation, particularly after the First World War, of an international cartel. At the same time, this paper also examines the issue of market considerations versus technological pressures in the growth of extractive industries, as well as the extent to which global patterns of mining finance and development were determined by the centre rather than the periphery. It concludes that if the history of the chrome mining industry is anything to go by, metropolitan considerations prevailed more often than not

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