A Commonplace Book

I had no difficulty at all in gaining a modest grant to do some research towards a book on aspects of grant application ... and into the ambit of the Institute of Job Reductivism, at the time being run by John (later Sir John) Green, who went on to become Director of the Institute of Directors.

...Most of the fellows were engaged in straightforward reductivist studies. There were papers being written on -- among other things -- recruiting personnel to the personnel recruitment industry, writing in-house magazines for corporate communications companies, auditing procedures to be adopted for accounts, and assessing life cover rates for actuaries. The resident Marxist was engaged on a complex analysis of the division of domestic cleaning labour among people who worked in the domestic cleaning industry.