The factory and the city : the story of the Cowley automobile workers in Oxford
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The factory and the city : the story of the Cowley automobile workers in Oxford
（Employment and work relations in context series）
Mansell, 1993
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The factory & the city
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Bibliography: p. 283-294
Includes index
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: hardback ISBN 9780720121391
Description
Concerning itself with the relationship between corporate planning and local communities who must live with the consequences of corporate decisions, this book is based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley in Oxford (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a green-field site at Swindon). The authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers and communities.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Creative destruction? the state, capital and their effect on work and communities: industrial re-structuring, community disempowerment and grass-roots resistance, David Harvey and Erick Swyngedouw
- the British economy, the state, and the motor industry, Christine Greenhalgh and Andrew Kilmister
- new management techniques, Teresa Hayter. Part 2 The making and unmaking of Cowley: Cowley in the Oxford community, Stephen Ward, et al
- history of the Cowley trade unions, Alan Thornett
- women making cars, making trouble, making history, Anne-Marie Sweeney
- British Aerospace - the ugly duckling that never turned into a swan, John Lovering and Teresa Hayter. Part 3 The foreclosure of a campaign against closure: local politics, Teresa Hayter
- the unions and the closure
- planning, property and profits, Michael Thomas. Part 4 The implications of closure: after redundancy, Michael Noble.
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: pbk ISBN 9780720122152
Description
This work questions the relationship between corporate planning and local communities which must live with the consequences of corporate decisions. Based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a greenfield site at Swindon), the authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers and the community.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Creative destruction? the state, capital and their effect on work and communities: industrial restructuring, community disempowerment and grass-roots resistance, David Harvey and Erick Swyngedouw
- the British economy, the state and the motor industry, Christine Greenhalgh and Andrew Kilmister
- new management techniques, Teresa Hayter. Part 2 The making and un-making of Cowley: Cowley in the Oxford community, Stephen Ward et al
- history of the Cowley trade unions, Alan Thornett
- women making cars, making trouble, making history, Anne-Marie Sweeney
- British Aerospace - the ugly duckling that never turned into a swan, John Lovering and Teresa Hayter. Part 3 The foreclosure of a campaign against closure: local politics, Teresa Hayter
- the unions and the closure, "a Cowley worker"
- planning, property and profits, Michael Thomas. Part 4 The implications of closure: after redundancy, Michael Noble and Ann Schofield.
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