Ebook: Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business

Innovation, competition, and intrigue in the birth control industry.

From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. Borge shows how aggressive business practices were successfully deployed to protect the monopoly and squash competition.