Works Related to the Works of
Eugene Halliday

Meta-enterprise - An Initial Investigation
Fred Freeman (edited by Eugene Halliday)

Meta-enterprise looks beyond merely the private benefit of an individual or group

Description:
In 1972 a serious attempt was made by the directors of the family business "Freemans (Liverpool) Ltd." - which employed 500 staff in a department store in the Edge Hill District of Liverpool - to develop a meta-enterprise company with the name "Freemen Companionship". This booklet consists of copies of papers relating to that attempt.

The writer, who served as managing director for the twenty six years prior to the store's closure, considered that private economic power is also a public trust and that a trading company, by definition, consists of those who serve with it and those it serves, as well as its shareholders. He had awaited the opportunity to give practical expression to that belief.

One of the papers in the booklet is an essay headed "A Call to the Consideration of Political Principle". This essay is addressed to the Leaders of a political party in Liverpool, which had appeared to act as the sole judge and jury of a case where the private interests of that political party appeared directly to clash with the interests not only of Freemans but of the community at large.

First distributed in 1993, loose cover, A4 paper, 37 pages (incl. illustrations and appendices).

CODE: AV-4
Price: £4.00 each