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Voices of Guinness : an oral history of the Park Royal Brewery / Tim Strangleman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strangleman, Tim, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Oxford oral history series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford oral history series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guinness (Firm).
- Beer industry--Ireland--History.
- Beer industry.
- Brewery workers--England--London--History.
- Brewery workers.
- Breweries--England--London--History.
- Breweries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 'Voices of Guinness' tells the story of work in the 20th and early 21st 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the imagined garden
- The machine in the garden
- Creating industrial citizens
- The garden in the machine
- Remembering the work of the long boom
- Change at work
- The ghost in the machine
- The ruined garden
- Conclusion: reimagining work.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-064511-3
- 0-19-093729-7
- 0-19-064510-5
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