Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 4

Henryk Grossman (1881-1950) was the preeminent Marxist economist of the twentieth century. He was the founding theoretician and secretary of the Jewish Socialist Party of Galicia; a professor at the Free University of Poland; then, as a member of the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Frankfurt; and later at the University of Leipzig. Rick Kuhn is a member of Socialist Alternative in Australia. In addition to numerous other publications, he wrote the Deutscher Prize winning biography Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism, co-authored Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class and edited Class and Struggle in Australia.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionRick Kuhn1 The Area of Galicia After Its Occupation by Austria2 The Industry and Trade Policies for Galicia of Maria Theresia’s and Joseph II’s Governments, 1772–90 (A Lecture at the Fifth Congress of Polish Lawyers and Economists)3 Official Statistics of Galicia’s Foreign Trade to 1792Austria’s Trade Policy, with Reference to Galicia during the Reform Period 1772 to 1790PrefaceIntroductionPart 1 The Relationship with the German-Slav Hereditary Lands of the Monarchy, 1772–761 The Provisional Form of the Customs System, 1772–732 The Reform of Old Polish Legislation, 17743 Special Privileges Granted to Improve Galician Trade, 1773–754 Plans for a New System of Regulating Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands, 1775–76Part 2 Galicia’s Relationship with Poland, 1772–905 The Significance of the Vistula Trade Route to Gdańsk for Galicia6 Attempts to Conclude a Trade Treaty with Poland7 The Trade Treaty of 15 March 1775. Its Ratification. The Tariff of 1 October 17768 Supplementary Provisions9 The Implementation of the Treaty. An episode of Tariff War. The Extent of Austrian-Polish Trade RelationsPart 3 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1776–8410 The ‘Provisional’ Tariff of 28 December 177611 The Galician Tariff of 3 January 177812 The Struggle over Brody’s Privileges, 1778–7913 Livestock Export Policy and the Organisation of the Cattle Trade 1772–90Part 4 The Austro-Prussian Relationship and the Struggle for Supremacy in Germany between 1772 and 179014 The Economic Background to the Antagonism between Austria and Prussia15 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Silesia16 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Gdańsk17 Austria’s Attitude to Prussia. The Period under Maria Theresia, 1773–8018 Continuation. The Period of Joseph II, 1780–90Part 5 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1784–9019 The Tariff Reform of 178420 The Extension of the ReformPart 6 Galicia’s Trade Relations with the South and the South-East, 1772–9021 The Effort to Open New Export Routes through Trieste22 Trade with Turkey and to the Black Sea. The Trade Treaty of 1 November 1785 with RussiaFinal ObservationsAppendicesAppendix 1, to page 102: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the State and the NobilityAppendix 2, to page 111: Joseph II’s Economic Policy in HungaryAppendix 3, to page 282: The Tariff of 2 January 1778Appendix 4, to page 289: The Promotion of Linen ExportsAppendix 5, to page 295: The Official LanguageThe Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass MoralityReferencesIndex