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

Concerning itself with the relationship between corporate planning and local communities who must live with the consequences of corporate decisions, this book is based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley in Oxford (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a green-field site at Swindon) . The authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers and communities.