Industrial Management: Volume 72 Issue 3/4
Table of contents
Putting back the muscle
SIX WEEKS OF COAL STARVATION exposed the bones of the British economy. The industrial vertebrae collapsed, and the strong right arm holding down wages was crushed. But the body as…
Davies stands by for Moscow trade talks
Paul NovakTo Russia with trade. Now that the alleged Russian spies have gone and relations between Britain and the Kremlin are gradually returning to what passes as normal, John Davies is…
Chequered Boards
Jack CallardINTERNATIONAL COMPANIES tend to be larger than national ones, but I think the real distinction between the two is likely to be one of complexity rather than sheer size. In an…
EEC gets the economic blues
NOW THAT the diplomatic excitement of Europe's enlargement has faded, there is the anti‐climactic realization that, industrially‐speaking, things are not going at all well in the…
Wages: Heath on the threshold of victory
THE PRIME MINISTER is winning his battle against inflationary wage increases. This is confirmed by a confidential survey among 600 firms carried out by the Confederation of…
Unions: handing down the bruvver boots
ANY UNION fighting for a pay rise by picketing the country's economic nerve centres will have the full support of the miners. That pledge, given by NUM president, Joe Gormley in…
Power: the case for home fuel
National Coal Board chairman, Derek Ezra, believes that a further run‐down in the coal industry will endanger the security of Britain's fuel supplies. His warning comes at a time…
Industrial Relations: getting in on the Act
Why couldn't Britain's new labour laws be used to prevent the miners from bringing the country to its knees? Because, as Ian Mandle reports, the union in no way contravened them…
Management: fearful Europe and silent America
Production is largely recoverable, but how badly has confidence in British industry been hit? Reports from David Haworth in Brussels, Jack McCarthy in New York and Richard Brooks…
Micawberphoria
With more than a million out of work, Vic Feather, TUC General Secretary, is demanding that the Government stops basing its optimism, as he sees it, on the belief that ‘something…
Hauliers defy recession gloom
Road hauliers, hit by the industrial recession, see more Continental business as a possible solution for present troubles. But, as Roger Eglin of The Observer reports, on the…
Marsh sees bulk deals as BR freight winner
Under the forceful leadership of its new chairman, Richard Marsh, British Rail is thrusting into new freight markets to offset heavy dependence on the declining coal and steel…
Dutch look for British courage
Holland, always the staunchest supporter of British entry into the Common Market, believes the ECC will be given a powerful boost inter‐nationally with the UK as one of its…
Year of the Fat Cats
Keith Mayes‘Politics has gotten so expensive it even takes a lot of money to get beat with,’ said Will Rogers, a full 40 years ago. The remark is at least as true today.