Stokes, R. and Banken, R. (2009) No steel, no TV, and no burgers: how industrial action in a single company threatened to bring the British economy to a standstill. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 50(2), pp. 219-230. (doi: 10.1524/jbwg.2009.0023)
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Abstract
Because of its centrality to other industries, combined with its high levels of capital intensity in its production and distribution networks which hinder market entry for competition, the industrial gases industry, which produces gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, and acetylene, is of central importance to the industrial economy. The same characteristics make it simultaneously highly vulnerable to disruption. This article considers the causes, course, and consequences of industrial action at British Oxygen Company (BOC) in 1977, followed by threats of industrial action in the following two years. The company's actions are considered in the oontext of the political and economic climate of the period.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Stokes, Professor Ray |
| Authors: | Stokes, R., and Banken, R. |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Economic and Social History |
| Journal Name: | Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Akademie Forschung |
| ISSN: | 0075-2800 |
| ISSN (Online): | 2196-6842 |
| Published Online: | 16 April 2010 |
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