Studies in Labour History General Editor's Preface -- 1. Workplace Cultures and Business Performance: British Labour Relations and Industrial Output in Comparative Perspective / Alan Booth and Joseph Melling -- 2. Fordism and the Foreman: Labour Relations and Supervisory Trade Unionism in the American and British Automobile Industries, c. 1939-1970 / Joseph Melling -- 3. An Easy Life in a Railway Factory: Piecework and Shopfloor Bargaining at Swindon Locomotive Works, 1948-1963 / Michael Anson -- 4. The Economics and Politics of Technical Change under Public Ownership: The British Gas Industry in the 1950s and 1960s / Andrew Jenkins -- 5. Technological Change and Gender in the Labour Policies of British Retail Banks, 1945-1970 / Alan Booth -- 6. Waiting for Thatcher? Trade Unionism, Labour Politics and Shop Floor Bargaining in Postwar Britain / Joseph Melling and Alan Booth