The Growth of British Industry
Author | : Albert Edward Musson |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Albert Edward Musson |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Johnson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134999011 |
`...as an up-to-date and intelligible an account of large areas of British industry as you will find...It will be a valuable handbook for a variety of users: students and teachers(its prijmary audience), businessmen or coivil servants.' British Business
Author | : George Cyril Allen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1979-06-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 134904475X |
Author | : Roy A. Church |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1995-09-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521557702 |
A concise 1995 review of the strengths and weaknesses of the British motor industry during the one hundred years since its foundation.
Author | : Duncan Burn |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Duncan Lyall Burn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mar Hicks |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2018-02-23 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0262535181 |
This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Confederation of British Industry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Ball |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317811453 |
First published in 1988, this book analyses the changes that took place in the economic organisation of the British construction industry throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular considering its social and economic structure and examining the causes of its poor industrial record. Michael Ball describes how the major firms survived the economic slump between 1973 and 1982 - when construction workloads collapsed - by substantially restructuring their operations, relationships with clients, workforces and subcontractors. Detailed attention is paid to construction firms, the workers they employ, the influence of trade unionism and the role of other agencies in the building process. Reissued at a particularly challenging time for the British construction industry, this relevant and practical title will be of value to students and academics of economics and social change, as well as those on courses for construction professionals.
Author | : Geoffrey K. Ingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |