Making Cars: A History of Car-making at Cowley by the People Who Make the Cars (History Workshop S.)

Making Cars: A History of Car-making at Cowley by the People Who Make the Cars, edited by Greg Lanning, Christine Peaker and Caro Webb, is a vivid, worker-centred history of the Cowley plant told through interviews, personal recollections and shop-floor testimony. The editors trace the factory’s development from its early Morris days through decades of technological change, shifting management styles and evolving labour relations, showing how national industrial trends were experienced at ground level. The contributors describe skills, routines, humour and conflict, giving a textured sense of daily life inside a major manufacturing complex. It’s a tidy, human-focused volume that captures the social world and lived experience behind one of Britain’s most significant car-making sites.