All Our Working Lives

by Peter Pagnamenta, Richard Overy

All Our Working Lives provides a vivid and popular history of Britain at work since 1914. It draws on the personal memories of shopfloor workers and managers across a range of jobs, from shipbuilding to farming, coal mining to aircraft manufacture, shopkeeping to electronics. It is about working conditions and job satisfaction, pay, business success and failure, and new technology. Above all it is about change.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Peter Pagnamenta is a writer and social historian who lives in London. He is the author of Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman.

Reviews

[Johanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really good if somewhat dated look at what were our major manufacturing industries. All now reduced to minor pieces of the economic jigsaw and even at the time of writing they were in decline. Still if anyone has notions of a golden age of working class employment this book will disavow you of that notion. Poor management, horrendous working practices, intransigent unions and a terrible sense of wasted opportunities although with the rise of globalisation whether anything could have saved British industry is wholly debatable.

[Cally · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really want to find the TV show to watch now as well!