- 著者
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高村 直助
- 出版者
- 土地制度史学会(現 政治経済学・経済史学会)
- 雑誌
- 土地制度史学 (ISSN:04933567)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.7, no.3, pp.1-19, 1965-04-20 (Released:2017-09-30)
The subject of this paper is to clarify the condition and the change of the relationship between the spinning companies and the cotton brokers, the cotton-yarn dealers in the Japanese spinning industry which was making its form in the Meiji & Taisho Era. We particulary consider the conditions of the settlement of bills, the mode of transactions, and the sphere of influence among spinning companies and merchants: the cotton brokers, the cotton-yarn dealers. We also consider the conditions of the process of circulation on the stage of the following three periods. 1. 1886〜1890 (the growth of the spinning capital) 2. 1897〜1901 (the establishment of the spinning capital) 3. 1912〜1915 (the growth of the monopoly in the spinning industry). The first period: The process of circulation did not yet perfectly work. The spinning companies were placed in a disadvantageous position concerning the condition of settlement of bills and the mode of transactions. The second period: The process of circulation worked perfectly. The cotton was payed by bills, and the cotton-yarn by cash. These conditions of payment were advantageous to the spinning companies. On the other side, the mode of transactions was disadvantageous to them because of disunion between the cotton brokers and the cotton-yarn dealers. They dealt in futures of cotton, and sold spots of cotton-yarn. The spinning companies were below the brokers and the dealers. The period between the second and the first: Spinning companies occupied the advantageous position in selling of cotton-yarn by shortening of production. Some of the companies combined exclusively with the trading companies by means of buying raw cotton and selling cotton cloth to export. They began to gain monopol-profit. The third period: Spinning companies got more advantageous position on the settlement of bills. They dealt in futures of cotton-yarn. So cotton brokers and cotton-yarn dealers combined together in the course of transactions. The spinning companies got position equal to the cotton brokers and the cotton-yarn dealers. After crisis of 1920, the spinning companies began to controll process of circulation, and some of them got monopol-profit withdrawn from cotton manufacturers.