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Sound recordings, and transcripts, of media reports on the 'work-in' dispute, 1971-1972, at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS). BBC broadcast material.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS022
Scope and Contents

The recordings include BBC news items and special features covering the UCS 'work-in'. Interviewees include members of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee, and other workers.

Dates: 1969-1972.

Sound recordings from the Linda MacKenney Audio Collection, Scottish Theatre Archive, of interviews by MacKenney with people prominent in Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS025
Scope and Contents

A collection of interviews recorded by Linda MacKenney mostly in Scotland, but also the wider United Kingdom, between 1982 and 1985.

The collection focuses on people connected with Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. It also focuses on the creation and disbandment of important amateur theatre groups in Glasgow around the time of the Second World War, and the political climate of Scotland at that time.

Dates: 1967-1985.

Sound recordings made by Charles Woolfson and John Foster concerning the worker occupation in 1987 of the Caterpillar Tractors Ltd plant at Uddingston, Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS024
Scope and Contents

Charles Woolfson was a lecturer in the Department of Social and Economic Research at the University of Glasgow, and John Foster was documenting the 103 day action. The recordings are of Joint Occupation Committee meetings, interviews, and relevant broadcast material.

Dates: March-April 1987.

Sound recordings of various meetings and events during the 'work-in', 1971-1972, at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS023
Scope and Contents

The recordings were originally made for the purpose of writing up shop stewards' bulletins by the publicity committee. The events covered include: mass meetings of UCS workers; shop steward meetings; press interviews; and television and radio programmes concerning UCS.

Dates: 1971-1972.