Books by Andrew Gordon

Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a 'new' Trafalgar - a cataclysmic encounter which would decisively change a war's outcome. At last, in the summer of 1916, they thought their moment had come...Andrew Gordon's extraordinary, gripping book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the British navy in the years leading up to Jutland and gives a superb account of the battle itself and its bitterly acrimonious aftermath.

This book examines the "light and shadow" of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. It highlights dilemmas facing Japanese labor on the shop floor and in the labor movement.

This book examines the "light and shadow" of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. It highlights dilemmas facing Japanese labor on the shop floor and in the labor movement.

Gordon reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation in the Japanese workplace. Beginning with Occupation reforms and their influence, Gordon traces worker activism and protest in the 1950s and '60s, and how they gave way to management victory in the 1960s and '70s.