The rise and decline of the British motor industry
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The rise and decline of the British motor industry
（Studies in economic and social history）
Macmillan, 1994
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Bibliography: p. 125-137
Includes index: p. 138-140
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This pamphlet provides a synthesis of the vastly divergent views on the motor industry published over recent years. Before 1945 disagreements focused mainly on the degree of backwardness of the industry in 1914. After 1945 there is general agreement that the industry suffered from low investment.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The origins of British pre-eminence in Europe: the rise of the British motor industry before 1914
- war and its aftermath - gains and losses
- the framework of protection - home and overseas demand
- Fordism and the British system of mass production - technology and labour
- the dynamics and limitations of personal capitalism
- Fordism and the British approach to markets and marketing
- debilitating environment - scale, structure and strategies. Part 2 The roots of decline: postwar pre-eminence - attainment and erosion
- private investment and public policy - government and industry
- manufacturing systems, management and labour
- the role of organized labour - strikes and productivity
- industrial relations - Fordism and post-Fordism
- Fordist structure and strategy - the managerial organization
- scale, structure and merger - the origins and consequences of BMC. Part 3 The vicissitudes and collapse of a "national champion": the logic of British Leyland
- the anatomy of a merger
- British Leyland's productivity dilemma - markets and productivity
- the nationalized champion - policies and personalities
- from nationalization to privatization
- globalization and the role of multinationals
- explaining decline.
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