Unions and Management in Engineering: A Case Study, 1964–79
2005; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 47; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/0007679042000267488
ISSN1743-7938
Autores Tópico(s)Research, Science, and Academia
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes The issues of whether post-war British growth rates were low has recently been critically reappraised in A. Booth, ‘The Manufacturing Failure Hypothesis and the Performance of British Industry during the Long Boom’, Economic History Review, 2nd series, Vol.LVI (2003), pp.1–33. For example, S. Broadberry and N.F.R. Crafts, ‘British Economic Policy and Industrial Performance in the Early Post-War Period’, Business History, Vol.38 (1996), pp.65–91; idem, ‘Explaining Anglo-American Productivity Differentials in the Mid-20th Century’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol.52 (1990), pp.375–402; B.W.E .Alford, British Economic Performance, 1945–1975 (London, 1988), pp.68–73. Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations, 1965–8, Cd. 3632 (1968). K. Sisson and W. Brown, ‘Industrial Relations in the Private Sector: Donovan Revisited’, in G.S. 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Nichols, The British Worker Question: A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing (London, 1986). Ibid., pp.243–51. Guardian, 14 Sept. 1967. Merseyside Maritime Museum (hereafter MMM), Meccano Archives, B/ME/7, C. Craigie to J. Mullen, 29 March 1971. Toys International (Sept. 1973), p.22. MMM, Meccano Archives, B/ME/7, 1973/74 Budget. Ibid. Ibid., B/ME/9/1. Report from I.M. Russell, 1 May 1979. One calculation estimated in February 1979 that if Airfix had reduced to the industry average of 66 days the 79-day period over which it normally allowed credit, it would result in an immediate cash injection of £1.4 million. Toys International (Feb. 1979), p.4. Author's interview with Graeme Lines, 10 April 1991. MMM, Meccano Archives, B/ME/E, Comparison of Retail Prices of Corgi and Dinky, 1973–74. Ibid., B/ME/7, Profit Plan for Meccano, 26 Feb. 1976. J. Fallman, cited in D. McWhinnie, Effective Management on Merseyside (Liverpool, 1972), n.p. It has been estimated that during the post-war period between a half and two-thirds of privately owned manufacturing establishments with more than 200 employees had joint consultation arrangements of this type. See J. MacInnes, ‘Company Up Consultation: the Role and Extent of Joint Consultation in Post War Private Manufacturing Industry’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.23 (1985), pp.93–113. MMM, Meccano Archives, B/ME/E, Letter from Raymond Murphy, 1 June 1990; ibid., Catherine Mills Questionnaire. Ibid., W. Jones Questionnaire. Ibid., B/ME/6. Meccano Limited and its Subsidiary Companies: Report, 29 April 1963. F. Zweig, Trade Unions and Productivity (Oxford, 1951); C.F. Pratten and A.G. Atkinson, ‘The Use of Manpower in British Manufacturing Industry’, Department of Employment Gazette, Vol.84 (1976), pp.571–6. MMM, Meccano Archives, B/ME/E, M. Myers Questionnaire. Ibid., B/ME//21/6, Meeting Minutes, 30 March 1965 Ibid., B/ME/21; O.H. Clegg to Graeme Lines, 15 July 1965. 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Fallman was the only senior manager at Meccano with any training in production engineering. That he alone seems to have grasped the economics of the company's problems perhaps provides evidence for the hypothesis that a lack of technically educated managers hampered British industry at this time. M. Fores and D. Clark, ‘Why Sweden Manages Better’, Management Today (Feb. 1975), pp.66–9; D. Granick, Managerial Comparisons of Four Developed Countries: France, Britain, United States and Russia (Cambridge, MA, 1972). MMM, Meccano Archives, B/ME/9/1, Report from I.M. Russell, 1 May 1979. S. Machin and S. Wadhwani, ‘The Effects of Unions on Organisational Change and Employment’, Economic Journal, Vol.101 (1991), pp.835–54. In Place of Strife: A Policy for Industrial Relations, Cd. 3888 (1969), p.11. Quoted in K. Hawkins, British Industrial Relations, 1945–1975 (London, 1976), p.64. Political and Economic Planning Unit, Attitudes in British Management (London, 1966), pp.210–12, lists the characteristic features of labour relations policy in these ‘sleeper’ companies.
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