Lenin: 1916/ni-alpha: MORIDE, 'MULTIPLE STORES' (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “α”

(“ALPHA”)

MORIDE, “MULTIPLE STORES”

Pierre Moride, “Multiple-Store Firms in France and Abroad”, Paris, 1913 (Alcan). (Review in Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, IV, 1, p. 286.)

| | Branches | | | | | | | | -------------------- | | ------------------------------- | ---------- | ------- | | ----------------------------------------------- | | Britain | | 497 | firms with | 20,644 | | | | Germany | | 14,453 | ” ” | 34,464 | | (of which 31,799 are shops or larger stores | | | ↓ | | ↓ | | ↓ | | | | | | | | | | | | | No. ofemployees | | 926,369 | — — — | 473,077 | | | | | | | | | | | | France . . . . . . ? | | 12,000 | | | | | | | 50,000 | | manual and non-manual employees | | | | | | | 125 | | million francs wages | | | | |

— — — “a manifestation of the process of concentration which is seen in trade as well as in manufacturing industry” (p. 286).