Ultimately the authors show how arguments about the role of overseas branch plants in the dissemination of management practices must take more careful account of the varied ways in which such factories are implicated in wider corporate strategies. The operations of international firms are embedded within intractable features of capitalist employment relations, especially as they are 're-made' in specific local and national settings.

Originally published in 1934, this book is primarily concerned with the psychological aspect of the development of certain manual skills. Cox examines what motor functions and their acquisition can reveal of a subject's psychology, and how such conclusions can be used in vocational and educational guidance.