TY - JOUR AB - ‘FOG in Channel: Continent isolated!’ Those were once the headlines in a national newspaper which thus succinctly, although with unintentional irony, expressed the British sense of complacency. Making allowance for an element of exaggeration, the incident contained enough truth to make its point. The new alignments of industry and commerce which are now taking place mean that this country cannot afford to retain even a vestige of such an attitude. VL - 10 IS - 7 SN - 0043-8022 DO - 10.1108/eb048150 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048150 PY - 1961 Y1 - 1961/01/01 TI - Time and Motion Study Volume 10 Issue 7 T2 - Work Study PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 13 EP - 53 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -