The role of the industrial workplace in working-class community, 1945-1980

Ramsden, Stefan

Abstract

Historiography of the post-war working classes has tended to underplay the role of industrial workplaces in the community life of many localities. This article uses an oral history case-study of Beverley, East Yorkshire, to show how industrial workplaces could still be central to the construction of social networks and local identity across the three post-war decades. I suggest that the decline of British manufacturing, which gathered pace in the 1970s and 1980s, may have been more detrimental to working-class community life than the supposed post-war shift towards consumerism and individualism.

Citation

Ramsden, S. (2016). The role of the industrial workplace in working-class community, 1945-1980. Family and Community History, 19(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2016.1144959

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 1, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Mar 29, 2016
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: May 24, 2021
• Journal: Family and Community History
• Print ISSN: 1463-1180
• Electronic ISSN: 1751-3812
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 34-49
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2016.1144959
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/2658689