British Motor Industry
Details:
- Author(s) Foreman-Peck, James, Sue Bowden & Alan McKinlay
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1995
- Pages 323pp
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account, forming one in a series on 20th century British industries, dealing with the industry from its Victorian origins and in particular contributing to an understanding of its 'spectacular' decline' since 1975. The 'objective of the present work is to provide a fairly succinct, primarily economic, analysis of key issues and opinions in the literature on the industry' as well as adding some original material. Has sections: 'Rise and decline of an industry'; 'Late delivery and retarded development - Victorian origins and Edwardian growth'; 'Coming of age - industrial structure and performance between the world wars'; 'Formative influences - consumer demand and government policy, 1920-45'; 'Industry structure and scale economies, 1945-78'; 'Competitive behaviour and market positioning, 1945-78'; 'Industrial relations, 1945-78'; 'Demand and government policy, 1945-78'; 'From Fordism to lean production'. Much on Austin; Morris Motors Ltd; British Motor Corp Ltd; Ford Motor Co Ltd; Vauxhall Motors; British Leyland; Chrysler UK