Industrial Management: Volume 73 Issue 5

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Heads we win, tails you lose

First Distillers Co and now Roche. It is an almost perverse element that links these seemingly‐unrelated controversies. Indeed, if the Swiss‐owned drugs company is looking for…

Which way to jump on escape clauses

Exclusion clauses will come in for a great deal of scrutiny under the Supply of Goods (Implied Terms) Act. Here, Ewan Mitchell advises when to leave them out and when to retain…

THE MAKING OF HAY'S

Maurice Barnfather

With planning consent for the redevelopment of its Southwark dock site virtually assured, Hay's Wharf has a property potential that is awesome even by today's standards.

Mrs Castle accuses Macmillan of ‘back‐pedalling’ on equal pay

Paul Novak

BARBARA CASTLE, ARCHITECT of the Equal Pay Act, is firing warning shots at employers who drag their feet or try to evade this issue.

The seven year switch

Leslie Kenton examines three companies which have taken such theories as ‘job enrichment’ and ‘employee participation’ and fashioned them into workable ‐ and profitable …

TRADE GAP IN THE BERLIN WALL

West Germany's duty‐free trading link with East Germany rankles with other EEC countries who seek a bigger stake in the lucrative Comecon market. But, as John Lawless reports…

Davy stays its own master

From a state of near‐collapse, Davy International underwent ‘surgery without anaesthetic’ to become one of the biggest process engineering and contracting concerns in the world…

FIBRE MEN UNRAVEL PRODUCTION TANGLE

Rising wool prices and technical advances in artificial fibres have provided Europe's man‐made textile producer's with booming business. But with prices yet to regain a healthy…

BLIND SPOTS ON DANGER LOADS

While more regulations governing the transport of dangerous chemicals are due to come into force later this year, some critics claim there is still too much reliance on voluntary…

Japan seeks UK help in Market trade talks

Colin O'Dwyer

THE PRESENT VISIT to Europe—and more particularly Brussels—by Masayoshi Ohira, the Japanese Foreign Minister, is noteworthy if only for its timing.

Cushioning the load

Michael Wright

Suppose that you have a piece of workshop equipment—an oven, say—weigh‐ing several tons, that needs to be moved across a rough concrete floor. Just to make things more difficult…

Corporate enterprise comes to the ghetto

‘Five years after Richard Nixon tried to steal black capitalism to enhance his ideological wardrobe—shortly thereafter to forget it because it fitted him badly—the black community…

The thorns on Scanlon's olive branch

Hugh Scanlon's apparent climb‐down over the IR Act and the counter‐inflation measures form a deliberate part of the impending engineering workers' pay claim strategy, reports Ian…

ISSN:

0007-6929

Online date, start – end:

1970 – 1980

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited