Industrial Management: Volume 71 Issue 11
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Industrial Relations — Act one
THE WAY IN WHICH THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT has Crept in by the back door, having had a rough passage as a Bill, gives the impression that it is all over bar the union…
Security without a watchdog
THE VERY WORD ‘SECURITY’ conjures up a multitude of dramatic and political legends. Security is Callan, James Bond, M15, international rows and the violation of airspace. It is…
Factory spies under close scrutiny
Paul NovakReginald Maudling will have the ugly problem of industrial spying thrust under his nose next year. Officials at the Home Office are already hinting at registration for security…
High speed gas slows down prices
Roger EglinWith a gross revenue fast nearing £700 million, 115,000 employees and over 13 million customers, the gas industry is a vast enterprise, and discovery of natural gas in the North…
GOLD: no cure for the fever
With interviews in South Africa and London, Chris Phillips reports on the dangerously‐nationalistic US moves which have taken the monetary world away from its gold base and at the…
British industry must throw off tradition‐Schiller
In the first of a series of European viewpoints — in which Industrial Management interviews prominent Common Market personalities — Richard Brooks talks to West Germany's Economic…
Automation tackles the environment
The three‐day working week, with the Machine as master of man, never materialized. But, as Simon Peterson reports, automation has found a new area in tackling the problems of the…
High‐flyer takes a busman's holiday
In January Freddie Wood, pictured right becomes part‐time chairman of the National Bus Company. His selection for the post is not difficult to understand for, as Ken Gooding…
Scotch doubles in the States
In just three American states, more Scotch whisky is drunk than in the whole of the British Isles. From New York, Jack McCarthy reports on its rise to the number one status…
Spirotechnics…
Keith MayesJohn Nance Garner, twice Franklin Roosevelt's Vice‐President, came to the conclusion that ‘the vice‐presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit’. At least, that is the way his…
In the steps of Sir Paul
Richard Brooks talks to the director of the Council of Industrial Design about the beauty in the cities missed by those who do not find the time to look around.