Industrial Management: Volume 72 Issue 7-8
Table of contents
Two kinds of relations
In future, companies are going to be asked to make a clear distinction between industrial relations and labour relations. Having had to absorb the IR Act and its full implications…
Inside Westminster
Paul NovakAutumn PT cuts will yo‐yo car prices MPs have come to expect Autumn mini‐budgets under both Tory and Labour Government and the Chancellor is unlikely to disappoint them this year…
The King was dead‐long live the King
JOHN KING embodies all that is best in British management. He is tough, with the ability to always separate the wood from the trees, and progressive, in that his decisions are…
Regenerating the Regions
Fred DawsonTHE DEVELOPMENT REGIONS want prosperity and jobs and it begins to look as though they will be getting a policy to do just this. Acts of Parliament make policies but only…
(Investment‐hungry Japanese wary of UK unions)
Japanese overseas investment will go up nearly tenfold by 1980, much of it in Europe. But UK ventures are likely to be small, like the YKK zip factory at Runcorn, to avoid…
YOU CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOCKER NEW TRICKS
Britain's dockers are fighting, as they see it, for their souls. Since the container revolution, a ship can be unloaded 10 times as fast by a tenth of the number of dockers. Here…
NARROWING MARGINS IN OFFICE EQUIPMENT
If you add up the shares of the market claimed by the various office equipment manufacturers, you arrive at a figure of about 385%, says one executive. VAT and metrication will…
INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION:: the big build‐up begins
This year has seen a jump in orders for new factories. Roger Eglin, of The Observer, talks to IDC chairman Howard Hicks, pictured in his pre‐cast concrete plant, and others about…
floating the family fortune
David Owen, head of the Rubery Owen motor components‐to‐fork‐lift truck empire, recognises that the family business must one day go public. But first, he tells Ken Gooding, the…
Changing the rings
Preston WittsTake an oil sealing ring made of cast‐iron, try to bend it, and it ‘gives’ only slightly. Do the same with a ring made of PTFE—or, to spell it out, polytetrafluroethylene—and you…
JOBS FOR THE ALL‐AMERICAN BOYS
Keith MayesIt is hard to fix on a date when the Vietnam war started. It will be equally difficult to decide when American participation ended. Most wars end with a massive demobilization of…
Sunday a.m. with a possible P.M.
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS rounds the corner of the narrow country lane looking like someone in that TV advertisement for drinking chocolate; chin tucked into a yellow roll‐neck sweater…