ABSTRACT

Reorganisation and the end of the war brought no immediate relief to Taylor & Francis. Paper supplies gradually improved, though even at the close of the 1940s paper for periodicals remained subject to restriction. But the main problem was the recruitment of skilled labour. It was estimated at the end of 1945 that, even when demobilisation had been completed, the printing and binding trades would still be some 10000 skilled operators short of their pre-war establishment. When Taylor & Francis tried to recruit twenty men at this time, they actually found only three. The growth and diversification of science after the Second World War was of interest not only to Taylor & Francis. A number of other commercial publishers-some established, some newrealised that here was a fruitful area in which to extend their activities. The policy of expanding outwards from the Philosophical Magazine continued through the 1950s.