Governments always tell voters that, on the upside, spending on the military is good for jobs. But the Lucas Plan challenged that notion, and so does Common Wealth Senior Research Fellow Khem Rogaly.
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Fifty years ago, forward-thinking workers at a UK military contractor came together and drew up a plan to keep their jobs and use their skills in a different way. The result was the history-making #LucasPlan. Former Lucas Aerospace Shop Steward Brian Salisbury shares more: bit.ly/4kHyK5C
Employees at Lucas Aerospace, a military contractor in the UK, were at risk of losing their jobs when they proposed the Lucas Plan. It featured 150 goods they could produce instead of fighter jets and bombs. Former Lucas Aerospace Shop Steward Philip Asquith shares more: bit.ly/4kvI5gP #LucasPlan
Hilary Wainwright remembers helping Lucas Aerospace employees as they created the #LucasPlan. Their plan to make socially useful products instead of bombs was backed up with prototypes and hundreds of pages of argued detail — knowledge that could only come from workers, she shares: bit.ly/4kvI5gP
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