The British motor industry
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The British motor industry
（British industries in the twentieth century）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1995
Available at 38 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 280-296
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work offers a non-technical account of the rise and decline of one of the the most vital trades of the 20th century. It traces how the industry passed through a number of phases, dependent upon the evolution of technology and upon the vagaries of the world economy. The story is taken back to the beginnings of the motor car so as to appraise the judgement of a number of writers that the seeds of the collapse of the 1970s were planted many years earlier. Labour relations and management are analyzed, as is the impact of government policy. Particular attention is paid to national demand conditions and to demand shocks as formative influences.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the rise and decline of an industry. Late delivery and retarded development - Victorian origins and Edwardian growth
- coming of age - industrial structure and performance between thw World Wars
- formative influences - consumer demand and government policy, 1920-1945
- industry structure and scale economies, 1945-1978
- competitive behaviour and market positioning, 1945-1978
- industrial relations, 1945-1978
- demand and government policy, 1945-1978
- from Fordism to lean production.
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