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The sixties and seventies, overall, were years of ambition and better standards of prosperity but Kirsty Young hears that many jobs we did were deeply dreary and productivity was falling behind our competitors. This was an era overshadowed by conflict, with the demands of workers and their unions for better wages and conditions, sending ripples of discontent through the British at work.

In Part two of the British at Work, one educated young man from the south of England who undertook a job swap - 1967 style - tells Kirsty about how he found himself working at the furnace face of an Ebbw Vale steelworks - and the demoralised, bitter men he met there who spent their every working day amid the heat, sweat and danger.