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"This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis on the industrial history of delivering utilities. With contributions on the strengths and weaknesses of the creation of electricity networks, the organisation and performance of Britain's nationalised gas industry, and the environmental impact of delivering water and removing waste water, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences"--

4.2 Fraud uncovered4.3 The jigsaw pieces come together; 4.4 Conclusions; 5 Investigations and court cases; 5.1 Mounting evidence; 5.2 Grand Jury and multi-agency investigations; 5.3 The net closes in; 5.4 Conclusions; 6 The rescue strategy; 6.1 The crisis strikes; 6.2 Public announcements and Sir Derek; 6.3 Asset disposals; 6.4 Sir Derekâ#x80;#x99;s departure; 7 The â#x80;#x98;New Ferranti Internationalâ#x80;#x99;; 7.1 Eugene Anderson and organisational change; 7.2 Recovery chances: the internal perspective; 7.3 Recovery chances: externalâ#x80;#x93;internal alignment?; 7.4 Conclusions: a â#x80;#x98;New Ferranti Internationalâ#x80;#x99;?

This study of Ferranti in its last six years of a long history provides a detailed exposition of the British and American businessmen who combined to terminate one of the UK's leading defence electronics firms. Involving action in the Middle East, South Africa and Pakistan, as well as the UK and USA, this highlights the precarious nature of international arms trading

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why this book, and why now? -- 1.2. Building Co-operation---Some caveats -- 1.3. Towards a co-operative business history -- 1.4. The co-operative business model and The Co-operative Group -- 1.5.Organization -- pt. I RISE AND REIGN -- 2. The Roots and Rise of British Co-operation, c.1780--1863 -- 2.1. Co-operative initiatives before the 1840s -- 2.2. The Rochdale Pioneers and the Rochdale model -- 2.3. The spread of co-operation in England and experiments in wholesaling, 1844--63 -- 2.4. More concrete moves towards a wholesale society -- 3. The Rise of the CWS, 1863 to 1890: The Birth and Leadership of a Corporate Giant? -- 3.1. The context of co-operative development: British economic and social development, 1860--90, and the retail revolution' -- 3.2. The co-operative movement and the dominance of localism' -- 3.3. Building the CWS: The competitive hothouse' and the rise of a commercial giant

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