William John Garnett
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(William) John Poulton Maxwell Garnett CBE (6 August 1921 – 14 August 1997) was a British industrial relations campaigner who led The Industrial Society (now The Work Foundation) from 1962 until 1986.[1][2][3]
After university, Garnett joined Imperial Chemical Industries as a graduate trainee, initially in Glasgow. He continued to work at ICI until 1962, becoming personnel manager at their plastics factory in Blackpool. In 1962, Garnett was appointed Director of "The Industrial Welfare Society", which he renamed to simply "The Industrial Society", from where he became a well-known speaker, campaigner and thought-leader in industrial relations for a quarter century, notably writing his thoughts up in The Work Challenge, published in 1973.[4] He was appointed a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1970.[3]
