ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how production reforms and labour relations of the shipbuilding industry in Turku were interrelated in the shipyard of Crichton-Vulcan in the post-1945 period. In addition, shipyard work and its wider local and national effects, as well as their connections to the global development of shipbuilding, are examined. One of the objectives of this chapter is to reflect on the factors that have affected the nature and speed of production reforms that have taken place in the shipbuilding industry in Turku. To accomplish this, it is necessary to consider the actions of company management, trade unions, and shipyard employees in a wider social context. The extended operational environment of the shipyard was affected by both domestic and international markets, as well as by national industrial relations.
