Production, planning, participation! Around these three objectives an unlikely alliance of reformers came together during the 1940s to challenge long-established norms of industrial and political life in Britain. The institution of Joint Production Committees in British engineering factories during World War Two represented the most substantial experiment in worker participation ever undertaken in British industry. Shop Floor Citizens explores the politics of this experiment and assesses its impact on factory life. James Hinton's richly researched and engagingly written study rescues from obscurity the efforts of communist militants, trade union leaders, maverick industrialists and innovative civil servants to lay the foundations for a 'developmental state': dynamic, democratic, rooted in a productionist culture of shop floor citizenship. In relating the story of a neglected campaign for industrial democracy, this new book breaks new ground in the debate about where - and why - Britain's post-war settlement went wrong.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'James Hinton's important new study of worker participation in the British Engineering Industry in the 1940s makes a major contribution not just to the history of British industrial relations, but to our understanding of the Post-War Labour Government and of a tragic lost opportunity in the history of British Social Democracy. I warmly recommend it.'
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85898-081-2 (9781858980812)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
James Hinton, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Warwick, UK
Planning, participation and the communists; the production debate 1941-1942; pressure from below; defusing the crisis; making links; frontiers of control; regional boards; plan for engineering; crisis 1947; going through the motions; "the adventure has gone".
