In the throes of this expansionary policy, building guilds were able to bid on housing contracts. In September 1920, the Ministry of Health approved contracts with the Manchester and London guilds for a total of more than 800 workingclass houses. By November, more than eighty local guild committees of buildingtrade workers had organized for work. By December, “contracts involving the erection of more than a thousand houses had been accepted and were waiting the approval of the Ministry of Health” (Cox 1921, 780).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 438