Voices of Guinness

An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery

By: Tim Strangleman

Narrated by: Roger Clark

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 30 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 20th and early 21st centuries.

©2019 Oxford University Press (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

What have been better as a documentary, with sound

As this book is currently being listened to, I'm reading my review now. I would have liked to have it as a documentary, with sounds for at least some of the book, And a better cast than the single narrator. I also wish the reader could view narrator bios, at least seeing a little bit about said narrators. I guess narrator is from Ireland, so that's good. I'm pretty sure audible goes to great lengths to find good narrators for these titles, internationally if possible. This is not only a review of this book, But for audible itself. This is because I cannot actually review audible here come on Do you issues with amazon and my account. However call me these issues are none of your concern, so keep up the good work on the books.