Building the Trident Network by Maggie Mort, MIT, £22.95, ISBN
0262133970
THE MANAGER in your life needs to read what happened when, in the early
1980s, some Quakers suggested to shipbuilding unions that they should make
washing machines instead of Trident submarines. The idea did not go down
well.
But, as Maggie Mort manages, amidst much sociological jargon, to show, it was
the few trade unionists at the Vickers shipyard in Barrow who were looking for
alternatives who were proved right in the end. Instead of washing machines, the
Barrow Alternative Employment Committee proposed wave and tidal power, submarine
oil…
