She had resigned her lectureship in May 1945 and was now at work on a book about the effects of mechanised factory work on the mind and spirit. Her co-author John Winnington was a fellow machine operative who had ‘worked his way up in various firms from the lowest-paid jobs to the managerial grade’.[22] ‘Fantasy is the constant compensation for the rebuffs and failures that are so common in factory life,’ they would observe. ‘But if [a man] takes refuge in fantasy’, though he may ‘evade defeat and challenge’ he will also ‘lose the sense of fact’.[23] However, if this flight to fantasy can be
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