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Mabel Cooper is the Food Department Supervisor in a large chain store in Coventry. In this record of one day in her working life she describes the problems and satisfactions of her job, taking the ...viewer into a supervisors' meeting, to a lunchtime discussion with colleagues about the role of trade unions, and around the shop floor, helping out sales ladies and inspecting counters and supplies.
Mabel Cooper is the Food Department Supervisor in a large chain store in Coventry. In this record of one day in her working life she describes the problems and satisfactions of her job, taking the ...viewer into a supervisors' meeting, to a lunchtime discussion with colleagues about the role of trade unions, and around the shop floor, helping out sales ladies and inspecting counters and supplies.
| Module code and title: | D101, Making sense of society |
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| Item code: | D101; 17 |
| First transmission date: | 12-06-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Vic Lockwood |
| Contributor: | Mabel Cooper |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | `Day in the life'; Counter inspections; Coventry chain store; Food department supervisor; Job satisfaction; Supervisors' meeting; Supplies; Trade unions |
| Footage description: | The whole of the programme deals with Mabel Cooper's work as a shop supervisor. There are many clips of her at work in the store with her commentary over. Cooper looks at her role in the structure and aspects of her work. Clip of supervisors meeting with food manager. They discuss various problems. Cooper continues looking at her job - her attitude to the counter staff etc. Meeting of staff committee over lunch. They discuss attitudes to the firm and unions. She looks at her views on the management but states how she is very much on the side of the staff. Shots of the Coopers at home. Cooper concludes by making various statements on her job, difficulties and pleasures etc. Credits. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71735 |
| Production number: | 6HT71735 |
| Videofinder number: | 1675 |
| Available to public: | no |
