The International Aluminium Cartel, 1886-1978: The Business and Politics of a Cooperative Industrial Institution

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Note on archive sources
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I From patents sharing to cartels: the rise of the Aluminium-Association (1886–1914)
	1 Scale, scope, and agreements: the birth of the modern aluminium industry, 1886–1900
	2 The Aluminium-Association: the dawn of the international cartelisation, 1901–1908
	3 Changes at the top: the new Aluminium-Association, 1909–1914
Part II Competition and cooperation from the First World War to the Great Depression (1915–1930)
	4 The Great Aluminium War, 1914–1921
	5 The return of cartelisation: the European Aluminium- Association, 1922–1928
	6 European Cartel versus American Trust: cooperation and rivalry in a difficult economic environment, 1928–1930
Part III Business, finance, and politics: the rise and fall of the Alliance (1931–1945)
	7 The new global cartel: the inception of the Alliance Aluminium Compagnie, 1931–1933
	8 The ‘great transformation’ of Alliance: an international cartel in an autarkic world, 1934–1938
	9 A cartel in the turmoil of the war: the causes of Alliance’s termination, 1939–1945
Part IV Resumption, collapse, and criminalisation of aluminium governance (1945–1978)
	10 Post-war governance for the aluminium industry: the sunset of Alliance and the rise of the ‘Club’, 1945–1953
	11 Institutional innovations: towards a new balanced equilibrium in the aluminium industry, 1953–1969
	12 The ‘swansong’ of the aluminium cartel: the end and the criminalisation of aluminium governance, 1970–1978 (1984)
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index