Apologies to jiscmail users: private conversation sent to all by mistake! Please ignore: it won’t be of much interest to anyone anyway. From: Martin Spafford Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 12:22 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Industrial fully amended and with tasks etc added Never frustrating: they are immensely helpful and can’t do without them. Yours have been invaluable. However, I think it will be more efficient to handle them together all at once! From: msherwood Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 12:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Industrial fully amended and with tasks etc added As you all know, I am much happier with face-to-face meetings. Can skype, but I really don’t like long complicated discussions by phone. And I understand very well just how frustrating all our comments/suggestions/queries must be. And how much time they take! From: Martin Spafford [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin Spafford Sent: 24 August 2015 11:11 To: [log in to unmask]; 'hakim adi'; 'Dan Lyndon' Subject: Re: Industrial fully amended and with tasks etc added We clearly need to have a discussion about this as a team. I’ve now sent Jim the version with amendments along the lines of Hakim’s comments (ege describing anti-Irish riots as racist) but it’s only the first draft so changes can be made in the light of whatever we resolve. I think it’s clear that the four of us have to meet. A suggestion: two face-to-face meetings. One as soon as possible, to decide parameters for 1900-2010 and to discuss how we present racism and ‘race’. Then I go away and write, sending to you as I go along. Rather than you all sending comments bit by bit and me ending up having to do revision after revision of the same text, once I’ve written a draft for the whole chapter we meet again and you each bring along all your proposed corrections/amendments/changes etc for us all to hack out and agree in one meeting. I then redraft and send to you for final adjustments. That would certainly be easier for me. If face-to-face is difficult, maybe we could skype the first meeting (though I think that’s problematic for Marika – however I could bring my laptop to the ICS for us to skype together from there). I think a final meeting has to be face to face because we’ll be working together on the text.