[Futurework] Industrial Keynes

[Keith Hudson]

From time to time I've said unkind things about Maynard Keynes (although 
kind things, too) and on at least one occasion, probably, have said 
something untrue. One is that Keynes had never been in a factory in his 
life. Well, I have to report that, in 1926, Keynes was a member of a 
high-level team trying to rationalize the English cotton spinning industry 
in order the save the jobs that still existed after the industry had been 
run down during the 1914/18 war. In doing so The team travelled to 
Manchester many times. I find it very difficult to imagine that they didn't 
actually visit factory shop floors as they did so.

Keith
       

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