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...Open University's Social Sciences courses In December 1981, the Plessey Company announced plans to shut down their Capacitors plant in Bathgate. The factory – which employed predominantly women assembly workers – had been downsized substantially throughout the 1970s. Despite this, the decision to cease operations completely stunned the remaining workers. In the weeks...

...Open University's History and Social Sciences qualification. Background The public, political and cultural representations of 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...

...Open University's Open degree Laurie Taylor: Sometime in the early ‘70s I found myself in the back room of a very large estate pub chairing a meeting of local council tenants. Well as I remember, the meeting had been organised by a couple of tenants who felt particularly aggrieved by a recent rent rise, and by a university lecturer who thought that this grievance might,...