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Water Notes Dry Up: The Impact of the Donovan Reform Proposals and Thatcherism At Work on Labour Productivity in British Manufacturing Industry
Author(s) -
Metcalf David
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.1989.tb00206.x
Subject(s) - productivity , thatcherism , work (physics) , task (project management) , heading (navigation) , resistance (ecology) , technical change , economics , industrial organization , business , labour economics , political science , management , engineering , economic growth , law , mechanical engineering , politics , ecology , aerospace engineering , biology
Britain's industrial strategy was not equal to the task of overcoming the massive inertial resistance to change manifested by the British industrial system—not least because it still failed altogether to address the problem of the trade unions, possibly the strongest single factor militating against technical innovation and high productivity