By the Banks of a Glass River
Publisher: Ken Purdham
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Emerald, Victoria
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780646490823
Description: The river of glass began to flow when there was no other like it in the sourthern hemisphere and as such the business it created was able to monopolise the market in its isolation. The glass making communities that were born along and around the banks of the glass river were able to live off the fat of the land in an environment rich in harvests. Then with increasing globalisation the isolation fell away, leaviving the glass river with its fat and contented communities vulernable to attack from outsiders. These were communities that had no strategies to fend off competition and had learn quickely if they were to survive the international invasion.
Table of contents: title: Social History ; from protectionist environment to economic rationalism, flexible workpractices, downsizing, and a fight for survival.; title: FLoat Glass manufacture; title: A business survival in in the face of a international competition.