Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In review – galvanising story of landmark factory occupation

Tron theatre, Glasgow Frances Poet’s music-driven drama reconstructs the Greenock dispute that saw 240 workers square up to bosses It was the early days of the Thatcher project. At the start of 1981, the free-market chill was about to lay waste to the Linwood car plant, Bobby Sands was beginning his fatal hunger strike and formerly militant unions were feeling cowed by the implications of the 1980 Employment Act. This was the era of Ghost Town by the Specials : economic desolation at No 1. The o