Lucas Plan

The Lucas Plan was a January 1976 document produced by the workers of Lucas Aerospace Corporation. The shop stewards at Lucas published an Alternative Plan for the future of their company in response to the bosses' announcement that thousands of jobs were to be cut. Instead of being made redundant the workers argued that for their right to develop socially useful products.

BedZed eco-housing

Derives, Housing & Real Ecos - Stuart Wise

The Lucas Aerospace Plan and community architecture. Jack Common and a Newcastle urban derive. Historicism and Aestheticism. BedZed, the Stern…

Lucas: An Alternative Plan

The Redirection of Production: The Lucas Aerospace Plan of the Mid 1970s

A 1980 critique of the reformist nature of the Lucas Plan and green capitalism by Stuart Wise, David…

40 years of Lucas Plan - Some thoughts

Some of us take part in the ’40 years of Lucas Plan’ conference in Birmingham, 26th of November 2016 (http://lucasplan.org.uk/) - We wrote down…

Useless: The Stingray torpedo, made by Lucas

1976: The fight for useful work at Lucas Aerospace

History of how arms company workers struggled against closure and for a change in their work from weapons manufacture to socially useful…