The Devil Finds Work - Softcover

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This book is probably best described by he words of agony aunt and best selling author, Denise Robertson in her foreword - If, like me, you've searched in vain for an authentic description of life in the shipyards of Britain, you need search no longer. This book gives you the smell, feel and taste of shipyard life. It portrays the camaraderie and the hardship endured by the men who made ships and gives an in-depth description of their family life. As the men and their women struggle to survive in a climate of industrial unrest and threats to their livelihood they are faced with a stark choice....to fight organised crime or go under. Add an intriguing plot to authentic detail and you have that most enjoyable of things, a damn good read. There is no other publication of this kind. This novel captures the atmosphere of the northeast shipyards in the 1970s, the humour, resourcefulness and comradeship of the men, and their feelings of desperation and emasculation when they are unable to work.The 1970s- Hot pants, platform shoes and Punk Rock David Soul's 'Don't give up on us baby'. John Paul Young's 'Love is in the air.' A decade of Industrial disputes the three-day week - electricity rationing - The Winter of Discontent - gravediggers out on strike in Liverpool - dead bodies left unburied - Governments brought down.Against this background of national industrial unrest, a small group of ordinary shipyard labourers fight a David and Goliath battle against organised crime. They struggle to save their workplace from being taken over. It follows the group as they struggle to find enough money to survive during unofficial strikes, which are endangering the yard's very survival. When they're not working the men spend time at an allotment where they can stay out of their wives and girlfriends' way, and plan their money making, half-baked schemes including reclaiming sea coal from beaches to sell, drugging a greyhound to win a race and singing in the local workingmen's clubs. When they discover that an American crime syndicate is behind the yard's takeover and the death of a workmate, things really start to move.

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