NOTES AND LITERATURE CITED
- The Times, London, (15 March 1978), In South Korea it takes <iimg/> girl-day to assemble a television set: labour cost 80 p.
- F. E. Jones, The economic ingredients of industrial success, Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. 190, 16 (1976).
- (a) Times (16 March 1978). ‘At the moment… the Toyota Motor Company produces 51 cars per worker per year’; (b) Times (8 April 1978). NEB report on Leyland; ‘The average output per man last year was only 5.4 vehicles.’
- (a) Social Trends No. 5, Table 207. Government Statistical Service Publication (1974); (b) British Labour Statistics. Table 204. (1977); (c) Department of Employment Gazette (March 1978); (d) Times (12 April 1978).
- I quote from a statement (8 May 1978 ) by the General Secretary of a arge National Union: ‘There are approximately 9000 vacancies [in a nationalized industry] at the moment, with staff working on average 52 hours a week, although in some cases people are working 60, 70 and 80 hours a week … [the Union] are in a dilemma. If there is too great a recruitment, there will be a reaction from the staff who have geared their living standards to an inflated pay package.’
- E, Whiting, The economics of modes of employment. Personnel Review, 7, No. 1 (1978).
- (a) B. R. Mitchell and P. Deane (Editors), Abstract of British Historical Statistics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1962). (b) The British Economy : Key Statistics 1900–1964, London and Cambridge Economic Service (1965. (c) New Earnings Survey, HMSO, London (1977).
- The gross incomes are for 1977 –1978. For the effects of taxes and benefits derived therefrom mean figures for 1972 have been taken from Table 82 of Social Trends No. 5.
- R. H. S. Robertson, The output of scientists in Scotland, 1600–1950. Eugenics Review 52, 2 (July 1960).
- Lord Bowden of Chesterfield. Speech in the House of Lords (20 December 1966).
- Ref. 4a, Table 66.
- A single man with an income of £100 000 per annum before tax would after tax have left: (a) £22 829 if earned; (b) £7089 if from investments. In 1938 values: (a) = £1963; (b) = £610.
- Times ( 8 April 1978).
- Whitaker’s Almanac 1914 to 1940, when statistics disappear. Since then official figures which tally with earlier Almanac figures. Indictable, i.e. ‘Serious’ crimes; such as, assault occasioning bodily harm; wounding; burglary; theft; criminal damage, and so forth, but not including such crimes as traffic offences.
- For example, indictable juvenile criminals convicted in Bristol Courts during the decade 1967 –1977 rose by a factor of 2.3.
- Unemployed : 1952, 0.33 × 106; 1977, 1.42 × 106, Factor 4.3. Indictable crimes: 1952; 0.48 × 106; 1977, 2.46 × 106. Factor 5.1.
- Institute of Mathematics test paper set to 10 200 pupils, of whom 1700 were absent, in November 1977 : results published 9 March 1978.
- I. Watts (1674–1748).
- G. Sullivan, Barrister, Clerk to the Justices, Bristol, ‘Restrictions on Imprisonment’, Justices Clerks Society Conference, Worthing (1978).
- D. Wood, Times (3 April 1978).
- Times ( 6 April 1978 ). Report by Select Committee on Nationalized Industries on the British Steel Corporation.