The Factory and the City: Story of the Cowley Automobile Workers in Oxford (Employment & Work Relations in Context)

by David Harvey (Editor), TeresaHayter (Editor), StephenWard (Editor)

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  1994

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  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 and the community.