Railway Policy between the Wars
Details:
- Author(s) Bonavia, Michael R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 156pp
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Oral history
- Name Management structures
- Name Management practices
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the management of British railways between the 1923 groupings and 1939 to gain insight into the basis of decision making leading to policies and results which have subsequently been much criticized, notably by historians. Based on interviews with surviving practitioners, notably senior managers but also trade union officials and officials from Railway Clearing House and Railway Research Service. Has chapters: 'Companies and their management structures'; 'Quality of management'; 'Labour costs, productivity and staff morale'; 'Commercial policy and charges'; 'Physical assets'; 'Railways and road transport'; 'Railways and air transport'; 'Technical standards and innovation'; 'A summing up - the managers' reply to the historians' verdict'