ABSTRACT
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XV of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series and this book on The Shops of Britain follows the author's publication on Retail Trade Associations, a new form of monopolist organization in Britain. After the book had been completed, the Report of the Census of Distribution Committee, published in March 1946, urged the necessity of providing more statistical information about the distributive trades. One of the purposes of this book is to display how complex the structure of retailing is and to show that it is dependent on a great variety of economic, social, occupational and sociological factors which cannot be adequately assessed without a comparative analysis of all the various trades concerned with retailing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |30 pages
Some Fundamental Aspects
chapter |14 pages
The Multiplicity of Retail Outlets
chapter |16 pages
The Rationale of Retail Distribution
part |88 pages
The Present Structure of Retail Distribution
chapter |14 pages
A Statistical Approach
chapter |74 pages
Diversity and Disintegration of Retail Outlets
part |32 pages
The Competitive Struggle
chapter |17 pages
Prices and Margins
chapter |9 pages
Competition and Labour
chapter |6 pages
Competition and Finance
part |61 pages
Statistical Analysis
chapter |7 pages
Some Preliminary Observations
chapter |8 pages
Transport and Retailers
chapter |18 pages
The Reduction of Intermediary Costs
chapter |28 pages
Economies in Retailing Proper
part |21 pages
Statistical Analysis