1st Edition
Rebuilding Construction (Routledge Revivals) Economic Change in the British Construction Industry
By Michael Ball
Copyright 2014
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1988, this book analyses the changes that took place in the economic organisation of the British construction industry throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular considering its social and economic structure and examining the causes of its poor industrial record. Michael Ball describes how the major firms survived the economic slump between 1973 and 1982, when... Read more
Figures; Tables; 1. Construction: the image and the reality 2. Is the construction industry backward? 3. The different types of buildings enterprise 4. The development of class relations in the building industry 5. How construction forms organise production 6. Construction output: a thirty-year view 7. A hierarchical industry 8. Keeping up profits 9. Takeovers for growth 10. Sectoral restructuring 11. A new social balance in the construction industry? 12. Dilemmas in construction; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Ball, Michael
