The Factory and the City
Story of the Cowley Automobile Workers in Oxford
Published on 22. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7201-2215-2 (ISBN)
Description
This work questions the relationship between corporate planning and local communities which must live with the consequences of corporate decisions. Based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a greenfield site at Swindon), the authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers and the community.
This work questions the relationship between corporate planning and local communities which must live with the consequences of corporate decisions. Based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a greenfield site at Swindon), the authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers and the community.
This work questions the relationship between corporate planning and local communities which must live with the consequences of corporate decisions. Based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a greenfield site at Swindon), the authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers and the community.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
abbreviations, 5 b&w
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7201-2215-2 (9780720122152)
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Content
Part 1 Creative destruction? the state, capital and their effect on work and communities: industrial restructuring, community disempowerment and grass-roots resistance, David Harvey and Erick Swyngedouw; the British economy, the state and the motor industry, Christine Greenhalgh and Andrew Kilmister; new management techniques, Teresa Hayter. Part 2 The making and un-making of Cowley: Cowley in the Oxford community, Stephen Ward et al; history of the Cowley trade unions, Alan Thornett; women making cars, making trouble, making history, Anne-Marie Sweeney; British Aerospace - the ugly duckling that never turned into a swan, John Lovering and Teresa Hayter. Part 3 The foreclosure of a campaign against closure: local politics, Teresa Hayter; the unions and the closure, "a Cowley worker"; planning, property and profits, Michael Thomas. Part 4 The implications of closure: after redundancy, Michael Noble and Ann Schofield.