Society, Politics & Law
The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981
...management planned to close. Andy Clark tells us what happened and the result of the occupation...Find out more about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Between February and August 1981, the mostly women workers at Greenock’s Lee Jeans factory defied management intentions to close the plant. At a time when female unemployment in Greenock was 50% higher than...