'Scottish Daily News' in K Coates (ed), New Worker Co-operatives
Details:
- Author(s) Mackie, Allister
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1976
- Pages pp109-40
- Publisher Spokesman Books for Institute of Workers' Control
- Place Published Nottingham
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee ownership, co-partnership, profit sharing, etc
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by the former chairman of the Action Committee formed following announcement of the newspaper's closure. Describes the closure of newspaper printing operations, including the 'Scottish Daily Express', in Glasgow by the Beaverbrook Newspapers in 1974 and in particular the creation of a workers' co-operative to carrying forward newspaper production as the 'Scottish Daily News'; the government support received for this; the involvement of Robert Maxwell, Pergamon Press; failure of the operation in 1975