Part one – part two – part three – Blowout archive
Blowout issue no. 1 – July 1989
Blowout issue no. 2 – September 1989
Blowout issue no. 3 – December 1989
Blowout issue no. 4 – January 1990
Blowout issue no. 5 – February 1990
Blowout issue no. 6 – April 1990
Blowout issue no. 7 – May 1990
Blowout issue no. 8 – June 1990
More to read
Interviews: the 20th anniversary of Piper Alpha, 2008, in the Scotsman and on the BBC
Lives in the Oil Industry project – Oral History of the UK North Sea Oil and Gas Industry
Articles by Terry Brotherstone:
Terry Brotherstone, “Energy Workers against Thatcherite Neoliberalism. Scottish coalminers and North Sea offshore workers: revisiting the class struggle in the UK in the 1980s”, in Workers of the World: International Journal of Strikes and Social Conflicts, II(1), pp. 135-54. (That link takes you to the whole journal, which has other interesting stuff in it.)
(Not on line:) Terry Brotherstone, “A Contribution to the Critique of Post-Imperial British History: North Sea Oil, Scottish Nationalism and Thatcherite Neoliberalism”, in J-A. McNeish and O. Logan (eds), Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas (London, Pluto, 2012), pp. 70-97.
More on People & Nature about energy workers’ struggles:
How will we get from here to there?
Support Pussy Riot by all means. But support the Kazakh oil workers too
Cover of the first edition of Blowout
Part one – part two – part three – Blowout archive
People and Nature 
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