The Establishment of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Company in Mid-Nineteenth-Century London.
The Great Central Gas Consumers' Company (GCGCC) was established by the metropolitan middle class to address the detrimental effects of gas industry monopoly through the promotion of market competition. It revealed that the middle class staunchly advocated for the use of liberalism to safeguard thei...
| Publicado en: | London Journal Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 71 - 89 |
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