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Fighting Deindustrialisation - Scottish Women's Factory Occupations, 1981-1982 (Hardcover)
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Fighting Deindustrialisation - Scottish Women's Factory Occupations, 1981-1982 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Labour History, 19
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In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines
one of the most significant and under-researched periods in modern
Scottish labour history. Over a fourteen month period in 1981 and
1982, as Scotland suffered the effects of the accelerated
deindustrialisation of its economy, three workforces refused to
accept the loss of their jobs. The predominantly women assembly
workers at Lee Jeans (Greenock), Lovable Bra (Cumbernauld), and
Plessey Capacitors (Bathgate) were informed that their
multinational employers had taken the decisions to close their
plants. At each site, a battle was fought against capital movement,
corporate greed, and unfair jobloss. The workers occupied their
factories and refused to vacate until their demands were met and
closure avoided. At all sites this objective was achieved; none of
the factories completely closed following the women's occupations.
In this book, these occupations are analysed together for the first
time, through a range of analytical frameworks from oral history,
memory studies, industrial relations scholarship, and
deindustrialisation studies. In his extensive examination, Clark
argues that the actions of 1981-82 should be considered as one of
the most significant periods in Scotland's history of
deindustrialisation. However, the public memory of 1981-82 is
precarious; Fighting Deindustrialisation begins the process of
incorporating women's militant resistance within academic and
popular understandings of working-class activism in later 20th
century-Scotland.
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