Losers

Ross McKibbin

  • The Politics of the UCS Work-In: Class Alliances and the Right to Work by John Foster and Charles Woolfson
    Lawrence and Wishart, 446 pp, £9.95, July 1986, ISBN 0 85315 663 8
  • A Lost Left: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism by David Howell
    Manchester, 351 pp, £29.95, July 1986, ISBN 0 7190 1959 1
  • The Miners’ Strike 1984-5: Loss without Limit by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd
    Routledge, 319 pp, £14.95, October 1986, ISBN 0 7102 0694 1
  • Red Hill: A Mining Community by Tony Parker
    Heinemann, 196 pp, £9.95, October 1986, ISBN 0 434 57771 5
  • Strike Free: New Industrial Relations in Britain by Philip Bassett
    Macmillan, 197 pp, £10.95, August 1986, ISBN 0 333 41800 X

The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in of 1971-72 has been so overlaid by industrial disaster that it is probably no longer even part of the folk memory. It is hard now to associate Jimmy Reid the benign television guide to the inhabited ruins of industrial Glasgow with the compelling CP shop-steward of 1971. Yet as Foster and Woolfson argue, the work-in was a definite moment in Scottish history and not just a symbol. The strength of their book lies in its structural analysis: the fate of the Clyde shipyards is placed firmly in the context of the Scottish and international economy.

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