Historiography of the post-war working classes has tended to underplay the role of industrial workplaces in the community life of many localities. This article uses an oral history case-study of Beverley, East Yorkshire, to show how industrial workplaces could still be central to the construction of social networks and local identity across the three post-war decades. I suggest that the decline of British manufacturing, which gathered pace in the 1970s and 1980s, may have been more detrimental to working-class community life than the supposed post-war shift towards consumerism and individualism.

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工业工作场所在工人阶级社区中的作用，1945-1980

战后工人阶级的历史编纂倾向于低估工业工作场所在许多地方社区生活中的作用。本文使用东约克郡贝弗利的口述历史案例研究来展示工业工作场所如何仍然是战后三个十年中社会网络和当地身份建设的核心。我认为，在 1970 年代和 1980 年代加快步伐的英国制造业的衰落可能比战后向消费主义和个人主义的假定转变对工人阶级社区生活的危害更大。