Assembling cultures : workplace activism, labour militancy and cultural change in Britain's car factories, 1945-82 / Jack Saunders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saunders, Jack, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry--Great Britain--History.

Strikes and lockouts.

Automobile industry workers--Labor unions--Great Britain.

Automobile industry workers.

Industrial relations--Great Britain.

Industrial relations.

Automobile industry workers--Labor unions.

Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry.

History.

Great Britain.

Motor industry.

Right to strike.

Ethnology.

Labor union members.

Medical Subjects:

Labor union members.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Assembling cultures takes a fine-grained look at workplace activism in car manufacturing between 1945 and 1982, using it as a key case for unpicking narratives around affluence, declinism and class. It traces the development of the militant car worker stereotype, looking at the social relations which lay behind the industry's reputation for conflict. This book reveals a changing, complex world of social practices, cultural norms, shared values and expectations. From the 1950s, car workers developed shop-floor organisations of considerable authority, enabling some new demands of their working lives, but constraining other more radical political aims. This is a story of workers and their place in the power relations of post-war Britain. 0This book is invaluable to academics and students studying the history, sociology and politics of modern Britain, particularly those with an interest in power, rationality, class, labour, gender and race. -- .

Contents:

Introduction

Car workers, trade union and public discourse

Organising in car factories 1945-64

Decentralised direct democracy, 1964-68

Re-making workplace trade unionism, 1968-75

Towards 'strike free', 1975-82

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526133393

9781526133397

OCLC:

1077483666