Cotton and Allied Trades Joint Committee

Scope and Content

The Cotton and Allied Trades Joint Committee was established in 1971, its membership being made up of nine representatives of the British Textile Employers' Association and nine from the main cotton unions. It replaced the Textile Council, which was dissolved in March 1972. Its main functions were to produce studies on the cotton industry and to make representations to government regarding the state of the industry. It also supervised the running of the Fielden House Productivity Centre Ltd., which carried out research into productivity in the cotton industry. The files contain the minutes, memoranda and correspondence of the Committee. There is also material relating to the British Textile Confederation, which carried out similar representative tasks for the textile industry as a whole.