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Despite changing official attitudes Britain's growing black labour force — now more than 600,000 — still finds it difficult to get promotion. And it seems that Government action has done little to help. Leslie Kenton reports.

The large pool of female labour has become increasingly important to industry. But as competition hots up, firms find that more than equal pay is needed to attract the women. Factory creches have been successful. Leslie Kenton investigates.

Made‐to‐measure techniques begin to dominate thinking in the mechanical handling industry. Leslie Kenton explains how the better use of cranes, fork‐lift trucks and other aids can cut factory distribution costs by 20 per cent.

What's it like being married to a top executive who spends half his time abroad? When he's absent for months at a time and the wife is left literally holding the baby ….. or when she goes with him for lengthy assignments? Laura Pank and Leslie Kenton look at some of the problems — and the perks.

Leslie Kenton examines three companies which have taken such theories as ‘job enrichment’ and ‘employee participation’ and fashioned them into workable ‐ and profitable ‐ techniques. Derek Bryan (right) recalls that the process took seven painstaking years and was at first resisted by middle management and supervisors.

As the problems of living under stress grow, so methods for dealing with them proliferate. How effective are they? Leslie Kenton examines the claims of Transcendental Meditation which, despite its hippie‐induced esotericism, is attracting more and more recruits from the business world, while Chris Phillips spent an evening talking to executives who have taken a course in Relaxation for Living.

Industry is paying well over the odds for its energy supplies, claim Britain's flourishing band of fuel cost ‘watchdogs’. Tariff rates are by no means as fixed as many companies believe, and a bit of haggling with the utility boards invariably results in cheaper bills, reports Leslie Kenton.

Accidents and disease continue to account for more lost working days in British industry than strikes‐yet the attitude from both management and workers tends to be one of ignorance and apathy. Safety and health at work can only come about through voluntary co‐operation, the Robens Report says. Others argue the case for compulsion. Report by Leslie Kenton.

The aluminium industry forges ahead with new multi‐million pound smelters, despite a sudden levelling‐off in demand. Leslie Kenton talks to the managers who have to find a rapid cure for their headache. Opening picture by John Benton‐Harris

At a time when cut‐throat competition from the charter companies has eroded airline revenues, pilots have become increasingly vociferous in the demands for better pay and working conditions. Leslie Kenton examines the arguments that pilots are using flight safety as a mis‐leading negotiating tool, and that managements are paying the penalty for labour relations negligence.