From: Business History | Date: October 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

For just over 20 years James Hinton's classic study of shopfloor politics, The First Shop Stewards Movement (1973) has dominated debate over the impact of World War I on British labour and trade unionism. The same themes run through this new study of the politics of production during the Second World War. Both world wars threw up novel demands, in the 1914-18 conflict for workers' control, and between 1939 and 1945 for a marriage of production, planning, and participation.

But this study will be of interest to business as well as labour historians. Hinton has much to say about ...

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