Decarbonising and Diversifying Defence: A Workers’ Enquiry for a Just Transition, 2021–2022

The main strand of the project was a ‘workers' enquiry’ - a method that encourages workers to think about and articulate their situation in the productive process. Fifty-eight interviews were carried out with self-selected (i.e. they responded to announcements or other communications about the research) current and former defence sector workers in the US and the UK. The transcripts of those interviews make up this archive, only including those that agreed to have their anonymised transcripts made public in this way. There are 35 in total - 16 from the UK and and 19 from the US. The study indicates the range of opinion and attention to nuance and complexity among an occupationally and geographically diverse group of defence sector workers in the US and UK. Although it is a small study and generalisations cannot be made from the self-selecting sample, their statements provide helpful insights and highlight numerous issues that could be investigated further by researchers, companies, governments, and unions.