Swiss_Companies_in_World_War_On _v_v BOOKMOBI # )` 0 92 B J R \" d mf u }N }P ~@ x " MOBI >zc P . P EXTH V e International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin m pThis text is licensed under: CC by-NC-ND 3.0 Germany - Attribution, Non-commercial, No Derivative Works. g This article describes the business development and the opportunities and risks that Swiss companies faced during the First World War. Although the export industries that supplied essential products to the warring nations for the most part reported high profits, the war posed a major challenge for the domestic economy and companies whose services or products were not essential for the conflict. The wide-scale export of war materials and, in some cases, the substantial profits that this business generated were curtailed by extensive control measures and a gradual loss of economic freedom. In Switzerland, the increasingly aggressive economic war triggered price increases and rising hardship across society. In the second half of the war, the number of strike days rose sharply, and there was widespread anger at the war profiteers, usurers and speculators. In November 1918, the Swiss national strike sparked the most serious social and domestic political crisis since the confederation was founded in 1848. en en d Roman Rossfeld 6Swiss Companies in World War One (Switzerland) l 2calibre (2.5.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com] i 9International Encyclopedia of the First World War i 1914-1918-Online i First World War i WW1 i 6Swiss Companies in World War One (Switzerland) q ,6c68cb9a-1404-4945-bfd8-7077f731e47c p 4calibre:6c68cb9a-1404-4945-bfd8-7077f731e47c EBOK j !2020-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 t Swiss Companies in World War One (Switzerland)