This article reports on a study of shopfloor `coping' behaviour in an engineering company which had launched a major `World Class Manufacturing' (WCM) initiative. The article unpacks the meaning of WCM and shows how its impact varied markedly between different manufacturing cells. More...

[eng] The author analyses the development of part-time farming of a particular kind linked with an industrial and urban civilisation. From the Buckinghamshire experience, he analyses the close links existing between trade, industry and part-time farming. Then, he evaluatee the possibility of...

[eng] Price of farmland in England and Wales rose ninefold between 1955 and 1975 and well over tenfold between 1955 and the peak value £1,450 par hectare reached in 1974. Anyone buying land at any time from 1945 onwards and holding it for five years would never have failed to make a gain. . It...

The authors examine cyclicality of strike frequency and incidence using Canadian data on strikes and contracts. Total strike frequency exhibits significant procyclicality, to which within-contract strikes contribute appreciably. Evidence is weaker for procyclical behavior of contract-expiry...