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Assembling Cultures - Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy and Cultural Change in Britain's Car Factories, 1945-82 (Paperback)
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Assembling Cultures - Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy and Cultural Change in Britain's Car Factories, 1945-82 (Paperback)
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In British political discourse the idea that in the 1970s trade
unions 'ran the country' has become a truism, a folk mythology
invoked against the twin perils of socialism and strikes. But who
exactly wielded power in Britain's workplaces and on what terms?
Assembling cultures takes a fine-grained look at factory activism
in the motor industry between 1945 and 1982, using car
manufacturing as a key case for unpicking important narratives
around affluence, declinism and class. It traces the development of
the militant car worker stereotype and looks at the real social
relations that lay behind car manufacturing's reputation for
conflict. In doing so, this book reveals a changing, complex world
of social practices, cultural norms and shared values and
expectations. From relatively meagre interwar trade union
traditions, during the post-war period car workers developed
shop-floor organisations of considerable authority, enabling some
to make new demands of their working lives, but constraining others
in their more radical political aims. Assembling cultures documents
in detail a historic process where, from the 1950s, groups and
individuals set about creating and reproducing collective power and
asks what that meant for their lives. This is a story of workers
and their place in the power relations of post-war Britain. This
book will be invaluable to lecturers and students studying the
history, sociology and politics of post-war Britain, particularly
those with an interest in power, rationality, class, labour, gender
and race. The detailed analysis of just how solidarity,
organisation and collective action were generated will also prove
useful to trade union activists. -- .
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