Brian Towers

Brian Towers, from a Liverpool family of seamen, was brought up during and after the Second World War in Walton and around Scotland Road. He was at school in Liverpool and Salford and, later, attended Manchester University, with further degrees from London and Nottingham. After national service he taught coalminers and shop stewards on Nottingham University's day-release courses, and in 1970 founded the Industrial Relations Journal. The author and editor of a number of books on economics and...See more

Brian Towers, from a Liverpool family of seamen, was brought up during and after the Second World War in Walton and around Scotland Road. He was at school in Liverpool and Salford and, later, attended Manchester University, with further degrees from London and Nottingham. After national service he taught coalminers and shop stewards on Nottingham University's day-release courses, and in 1970 founded the Industrial Relations Journal. The author and editor of a number of books on economics and industrial relations, he was appointed to his first professorship at Strathclyde University in Glasgow followed by several visiting appointments at Cornell and Penn State in the USA and, more recently, Warwick University. More recently he held a number of other appointments including a special professorship at Nottingham and was a visiting professor at Liverpool University. He arbitrated for ACAS from 1975 onwards. Professor Towers died in 2009, and Waterfront Blues is published posthumously. See less