For Starters. The business of life
Details:
- Author(s) Parker, Peter
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1989
- Pages 326pp; illus
- Publisher Cape
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Autobiography of chairman of British Railways Board, 1976-83, including much about his business career there and also at Booker McConnell, 1956-70, and, less so, at Rockware Group and Dawny Day. Reprinted 1991. Chapters include: 'A good start'; 'Inklings'; 'The Oxford Circus'; 'The dynamics of labour'; 'Time to build'; 'Minding our own businesses'; 'Trumpets and drums'; 'The problem with the railways'; 'The recovery of belief (British Rail, 1976-9)'; 'Anatomy of a strike (British Rail, 1980-2)'; 'No music at midnight (British Rail, 1982-83)'; 'Business and desire'. Includes much re industrial relations at British Rail