The Factory and the City: The Story of the Cowley Automobile Workers in Oxford

by Teresa Hayter

This work questions the relationship between corporate planning and local communities which must live with the consequences of corporate decisions. Based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a greenfield site at Swindon), the authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0720122155
• ISBN13: 9780720122152
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"