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Cover 1 Half Title Page, Title, Copyright, Dedication 2 Contents 8 List of illustrations 9 Acknowledgements 10 List of abbreviations 13 1 The 1970s: ‘winters of discontent’ 16 2 Election deferred and the collapse of the social contract 33 3 The Ford strike, 1978 53 4 The oil tanker drivers’ dispute and the road hauliers’ strike 78 5 Public sector strikes 101 6 Media coverage 127 7 The Conservative Party and the ‘winter of discontent’ 149 8 Political aftermath 166 9 In conclusion: the ‘winter of discontent’ – views from abroad 187 ‘Winter of discontent’, 1978–79: chronology of key events,including by-elections 195 Bibliography 198 Index 215 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9781526110817,Language:English,OCLC:1132664686 Over thirty years later, the ‘winter of discontent’ of 1978–79 still resonates in British politics. On 22 January 1979, 1.5 million workers were on strike. Industrial unrest swept Britain in an Arctic winter. Militant shop stewards blocked medical supplies to hospitals; mountains of rubbish remained uncollected; striking road hauliers threatened to bring the country to a standstill; even the dead were left unburied. Within weeks, the beleaguer

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Author

Callaghan, James;Shepherd, John;Thatcher, Margaret

Publisher

Manchester University Press Project MUSE

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719082474

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Management, Political Science