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Voices of Guinness - Tim Strangleman

Voices of Guinness

An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-064509-0 (ISBN)
CHF 39,90 inkl. MwSt
Voices of Guinness tells the story of work in the twentieth and early twenty-first century through one plant--the former Guinness brewery at Park Royal West London. It reflects on questions of industrial citizenship, work meaning, identity, loss, deindustrialization, and change through powerful oral histories with a wealth of archival and photographic materials.
Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and restaurants. During their breaks they could explore acres of parkland planted with hundreds of trees and thousands of shrubs. Imagine after work a place where employees could play over thirty sports, join one of the theater groups or dozens of other clubs. Imagine a place where at the end of a working life you could enjoy a company pension from a scheme you had never contributed a penny to. Imagine working in buildings designed by an internationally renowned architect whose brief was to create a building that "would last a century or two."

This is no fantasy or utopian vision of work but just some aspects of the working conditions enjoyed by employees at the Guinness brewery established at Park Royal West London in the mid-1930s. In this book, Tim Strangleman tells the story of the Guinness brewery at Park Royal, showing how the history of one plant tells us a much wider story about changing attitudes and understandings about work and the organization in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Drawing on extensive oral history interviews with staff and management as well as a wealth of archival and photographic sources, the book shows how progressive ideas of workplace citizenship came into conflict with the pressure to adapt to new expectations about work and its organization. Strangleman illustrates how these changes were experienced by those on the shop floor from the 1960s through to the final closure of the plant in 2005. This book asks striking and important questions about employment and the attachment workers have to their jobs, using the story of one the UK and Ireland's most beloved brands, Guinness.

Tim Strangleman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and past President of the Working Class Studies Association. He has researched and written on a wide range of work places and industries, examining work culture, attachment, and loss. He is the author of a number of books and articles about employment, deindustrialization, and nostalgia. He is also an oral historian who also uses visual methods and approaches along with archival materials.

Introduction: The Imagined Garden
Chapter 1: The Machine in the Garden
Chapter 2: Creating Industrial Citizens
Chapter 3: The Garden in the Machine
Chapter 4: Remembering the Work of the Long Boom
Chapter 5: Change at Work
Chapter 6: The Ghost in the Machine
Chapter 7: The Ruined Garden
Conclusion: Reimagining Work
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Oral History Series
Zusatzinfo 16
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 239 x 160 mm
Gewicht 590 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Getränke
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-19-064509-1 / 0190645091
ISBN-13 978-0-19-064509-0 / 9780190645090
Zustand Neuware
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