Article: Shop Floor Citizens: Engineering Democracy in 1940s Britain.

Though the ambit of research on political and social change in wartime and postwar Britain has continued to expand in recent years, with more revisionist treatments complementing the orthodox accounts of the coalition and Attlee governments, considerable mystery still surrounds what impact reforms such as the welfare state, economic planning, and nationalization had on popular opinion and political culture. Ferdynand Zweig's contemporary work on the attitudes of working men and women in the 1940s, for instance, has yet to find full resonance and examination in historical studies of Labour Britain. James Hinton's new book is a welcome attempt to redress this lacuna. Using ...

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