SOUTH PACIFIC ENTERPRISE tell the story of a large industrial organization against a background of the varied and colourful sugar industry.
It describes the expansion into other industries and many activities the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji as seen by a number of writers. It is generously illustrated.
Part of the book deals with the historical background, much of it previously unpublished. The story of two of Australia’s pioneering industrialists, Edward Know and his son E. W. Knox, is sketched here for the first time. Also described is CSR’s role as asocial and economic innovator – for instance in the development of small farm systems of sugar cane growing and in the introduction of high productivity techniques to large – scale industry.
Most of the book describes CSR as it is today and shows how the company operates, their policies it follows, the aims it seeks to achieve, the kind of people who own it, the kind of people who manage it, and the functions it performs in the community.
This is a book for the student as well as for the general reader. It provides a case study of joint-stock corporate capitalism in the South Pacific in the mid twentieth century. Much detailed information is conveyed in appendices.
Copied from the inside of the dust cover of South Pacific Enterprise (Dave Lukin)
Preamble
Preface, Introduction, Contents
Chapter 1 – Sugar and the sugar cane plant Various 1
Chapter 2 – The historical background Alan Birch & J. F. Blaxland 11
Chapter 3 – The structure of sugar markets J. M. Dixon 55
Chapter 4 – The sugar industry of Fiji A. G. Lowndes 67
Chapter 5 – The Australian Sugar Industry H. W. Herbert 91
Chapter 6 – Sugar milling by CSR J. M. Dixon 119
Chapter 7 – Sugar marketing operations J. M. Dixon 147
Chapter 8 – Sugar Refining by CSR J. Vernon 167
Chapter 9 – CSR’s unusual functions in sugar industry J. M. Dixon 186
Chapter 10 – Sugar in New Zealand A. C. Isaacs 199
Chapter 11 – Widening the field Clive Turnbull 207
Chapter 12 – Men and organization R. W. Harman 231
Chapter 13 – People and work in factories R. W. Harman 257
Chapter 14 – The diverse ownership of CSR Clive Turnbull 271
Chapter 15 – The rewards of enterprise J. M. Dixon 285
Editors’ epilogue A. G. Lowndes 343
Notes on inflation, taxation and direct controls J. M. Dixon 355
Appendices 393
Table of graphs, diagrams, tables and maps 485
Index 491