Industrial Policy and the Motor Industry
Details:
- Author(s) Wilks, Stephen R M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1988
- Pages 2nd ed; 338pp
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Multinational cos exc free standing & general trading cos
- Name Business & politics inc lobbying
- 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:
First published 1984. Scholarly account by a lecturer in a school of public administration and management. Describes and analyses the decline of the motor industry from the 1960s to the 1980s considering 1] industrial policy from an institutional and party political perspective; 2] government's relations with the motor industry especially the interventions and rescues of the 1970s and 80s; 3] the economic and political power of big manufacturers as indispensable national producers and influential manufacturers. Sees government policy as reactive and affected by party system and the government as a culpable accessory to industrial decline. Has chapters: 'Industrial policy process'; 'Policy and party - reactive policy making'; 'Decline of the motor industry and elite insularity'; 'British Leyland rescued and the articulation of policy'; 'The Chrysler rescue - pragmatism triumphant'; 'The Chrysler rescue - pressure options impact'; Policy implementation - products, plans, people'; 'Multinationals and the motor industry'