Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery : Tim Strangleman

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery Author: Tim Strangleman Narrator: Roger Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 3, 2019 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and restaurants. During their breaks they could explore acres of parkland planted with hundreds of trees and thousands of shrubs. Imagine after work a place where employees could play more than thirty sports, or join one of the theater groups or dozens of other clubs. Imagine a place where at the end of a working life you could enjoy a company pension from a scheme to which you had never contributed a penny. Imagine working in buildings designed by an internationally renowned architect whose brief was to create a building that 'would last a century or two.' This is no fantasy or utopian vision of work but a description of the working conditions enjoyed by employees at the Guinness brewery established at Park Royal in West London in the mid-1930s. In this book, Tim Strangleman tells the story of the Guinness brewery at Park Royal, showing how the history of one plant tells us a much wider story about changing attitudes and understandings about work in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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