Research Catalog

Title

Craft, class, and control : the sociology of a shipbuilding community / Ian Roberts.

Author

Roberts, Ian (Ian P.)

Publication

Edinburgh : Published by Edinburgh University Press for the University of Durham, ©1993.

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Details

Description

x, 228 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Once the world's largest shipbuilding town, the industry in Wearside was extinguished at a stroke in December 1988 by Conservative government policy. Craft, Class and Control charts the decline of British shipbuilding from 1930 to the present day. It discusses the industry's fate at both a national and international level but concentrates specifically on Wearside, so complementing existing studies which focus more on the Clyde and Tyne. It looks at the craft division of labour and the ways in which both capital and labour have defended this system of production in the past, providing an historical account of the relationship between community and industry. Dealing with questions of the changing identity, orientations and values of shop-floor workers Craft, Class and Control then relates these to the wider debate about the nature of the working class."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Geschichte 1930-1988
• Shipwrights > England > Wear River Region
• Shipbuilding industry > England > Wear River Region > Employees
• Shipbuilding industry > England > Wear River Region
• Economic history
• Shipbuilding industry
• Shipbuilding industry > Employees
• Shipwrights
• Social conditions
• Schiffbau
• Soziale Situation
• Scheepsbouw
• Arbeidsverhoudingen
• Wear River Region (England) > Social conditions
• Wear River Region (England) > Economic conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Wear Shipbuilding: Industry and Community -- 1. The Context -- 2. The Market -- 3. The Historical Individual -- Ch. 2. The Inter-war Period -- 1. A Concern with Costs -- 2. The Case of Welding -- 3. The Issue of Apprenticeship -- Ch. 3. Class and Community -- 1. The Post-war Position -- 2. One Side of the Employment Relationship -- 3. Within the Workplace -- Ch. 4. Craft Workers and the Negotiation of Control -- 1. Boundaries and Bargains -- 2. Control and Co-operation -- Ch. 5. The Changing Corporate Form: Private to Public Ownership -- 1. Amalgamation -- 2. Nationalisation on the Wear -- 3. The Shifting Contours of World Shipping -- 4. The Industry Nationalised -- Ch. 6. Working for British Shipbuilders -- 1. Tightening Control -- 2. Redundancy -- 3. The End of Craft Control? -- 4. Conclusion -- Afterword: Closure and Other Dirty Deals.

ISBN

• 0748603956
• 9780748603954

LCCN

93215235

OCLC

• ocm28295317
• 28295317
• SCSB-2014979

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library