Your Guide to Employee Housing in ADNOC.

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Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA

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First edition. Ten illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original sky blue printed wrappers, stapled; part of front cover darkened (due to sheet adhered to the reverse), otherwise very good. Revised telephone index stapled to page 15. A few lines of text crossed-out with black ink, rest of interior clean and fresh. 16pp. Abu Dhabi, Khalidia Printing Press, May A rare booklet issued to workers living in accommodation provided by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), which was founded as the first government-owned petroleum company in 1971. It provides a short but valuable insight into the domestic spaces of ADNOC's employees at the close of the 1970s.  The text covers the housing administration system, conditions of occupancy, furnishings, insurance and pets. This essential information is then complemented with intentionally humorous line-drawings of a hapless employee enduring various issues with his housing (very much a visualisation of what not to do).  Seemingly unrecorded, with no copies in LibraryHub or OCLC.…

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Title
Your Guide to Employee Housing in ADNOC.
Author
ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY.
Publication year
1979

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