See “Why Britain can't manage”, The Observer, 30 November 1975, p.13; “Why Britain undervalues manufacturing”, Financial Times, 1 November 1977, p.15; “An engineer's utopia”, Financial Times, 28 October 1977, The Sunday Times, 7 August 1977, pp.52–53.
2.
GloverIan, “Executive career patterns: Britain, France, Germany and Sweden”, Energy World, December 1976, pp.3–12.
3.
SorgeArndt, “The management tradition: a continental view”, in ForesM. and GloverI. (eds.) Manufacturing and Management, HMSO, 1978.
4.
Maurice,Marc, Sorge,Arndt and Warner,Malcolm, “Societal differences in organising manufacturing units. A comparison of France, West Germany and Great Britain”, paper for the World Congress of Sociology, Uppsala, 1978.
5.
See “Cold shoulders for job savers”. The Sunday Times, 21 November 1976, p.53.
6.
MantA., “The Rise and Fall of the British Manager”, Macmillan, 1977.
7.
Cf. Fores,M. and Rey,L., “Technik: the relevance of a missing concept”. Nature, Vol. 269, 1 September 1977, p.2.
8.
An informative description and analysis is provided by Cotgrove,S. F., Technical Education and Social Change, Allen & Unwin, London, 1958.
9.
This is described by Blanchet, Jeremy, “Science, Craft and the State. A Study of English Technical Education and its Advocates 1867–1906”, D.Phil, thesis, Oxford University, 1953.
10.
See Payne,G.L., Britain's Scientific and Technological Manpower, Stanford University Press/Oxford University Press, 1960.
11.
As reported by Lord Annan in the Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 April 1976.
12.
Cf. Musgrave,P. W., Technical Change, the Labour Force, and Education. A Study of the British and German Iron and Steel Industries 1860–1964, Pergamon Press, London, 1967.
13.
This connection was proposed and documented by Millerson,Geoffrey, The Qualifying Associations. A study in Professionalization, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1964.
14.
See WilliamsGertrude, Apprenticeship in Europe. The Lesson for Britain, Chapman Hall, London, 1963. Although the book appeared before the ITBs were created, the essential points of difference remain as they are described.
15.
See, for instance, Chisholm,A. W. J., “Some comparisons of the engineering education and training systems of Britain and Continental Europe”, Paper for I. Mech. E. conference, 1976.
