Shake It And Break It: Class and politics in Britain 1979/1989

just the title typed in black on a red/orange background

Two texts published by Echanges et Mouvement in 1990: "The Myths of Thatcherism" by David Brown and "The Winter of Discontent" by Henri Simon.

Author
David Brown
Henri Simon
Submitted by Fozzie on August 16, 2022

Contents

I. Myths of Thatcherism - David Brown

  • Foreword
  • The state's economic activities
  • The cuts
  • Wage and employment policy
  • The result: mobility
  • New labour relations?
  • Consensus to the Thatcher government
  • Conclusions
  • Footnotes

II. The Winter of Discontent - Henri Simon

  • Political solutions to capital's problems?
  • The Ford strike
  • The truck drivers‘ strike and secondary pickets
  • The creeping strikes of spring and summer 1979
  • The labour/capital relationship of force

PDF courtesy of Sparrows Nest Archive, Nottingham.

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