Society, Politics & Law
‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
...working-class activism in opposition to industrial closure are dominated by the image of the militant male worker. Leaders like Jimmy Reid, Arthur Scargill and high-profile disputes by miners, shipyard workers, car workers, steel workers and others are synonymous with resistance to the process of deindustrialisation. Where women appear in academic or popular accounts,...