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Although they inhabit the same world, John Owen and Doug Peach still begin their day in ways that are closer to their own fathers' and grandfathers' than they are to each other's. On a typical morning at 7, Doug Peach sits slowly stirring his tea in the small front room of his two-bedroom row house on the main street of Bloxwich, a small village 5½ miles from Darlaston. Doug Jr., the youngest of the Peaches' four sons, all of whom work at Rubery Owen, was married that weekend...
...Peach has driven his year-old Ford, its seats still protectively covered in their original showroom plastic, through a working-class neighborhood of government-subsidized houses, down Owen Road and through
...back gate of the plant. He enters his ground-floor office, a drab room whose walls are bare except for a few scattered snapshots of former Rubery Owen union officials. Spoiling for the day to begin, he makes his first phone call to a works manager. When it goes unanswered, Peach thunders: "Management is just getting out of bloody...
...John Owen has left Four Ashes, a 16-acre estate near the pleasant village of Knowle, 25 miles from Darlaston. The rambling, rose-covered "cottage," which Owen bought three years ago for $73,000, has a main section that dates from the 16th century. It is surrounded by spacious lawns, well-tended flower beds, a small pond and a paddock for Granby, the family pony. Later in the day the Owens' two oldest children−Rebecca, 8, and Sarah, 6−will receive riding lessons from their handsome blonde mother Elizabeth, 33, John's stepcousin as well...
...difference between the fiction of Coketown and the reality of Darlaston is that "you saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful." At Rubery Owen, an average workday seems more like a raucous political convention−or a cinema verite version of the 1959 Peter Sellers movie, I'm All Right, Jack. Shop stewards and managers alike frequently spend half of their day on labor disputes, but because the men do not actually leave the plant, these countless lost hours are not even logged among the 70,000 man-days the company now loses a year...