Employer and Employed. Ford, Ayrton & Co Ltd, silk spinners with worker participation, Leeds and Low Bentham, 1870-1970

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Author(s) Pafford, Elizabeth R, & John H P Pafford
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1974
Pages 77pp; illus
Publisher Pasold Research Fund
Place Published Edington

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Name Worker / employee ownership, co-partnership, profit sharing, etc
Name Worker / employee management inc control

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Comprises a history of the firm especially about how it relates to its employees, the local village community, profit sharing; raw materials, production processes, uses of output; some financial analysis of the business; governance of the business and profit sharing; run down of the business and its closure. Bibliography lists references to firm in trade journals, eg 'Co-partnership. Journal of the Industrial Co-partnership [later Participation] Association'. List of directors