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How to kill an act of parliament: solidarity, agency and the dockers in the 1960s and 1970s

A paper by Jack Saunders on how an unofficial network of workplace union reps/dockworkers defeated the 1971 Industrial Relations Act.

Submitted by wojtek on February 4, 2015
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  • 1960s
  • Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU)
  • 1970s
  • docks
  • United Kingdom
  • Jack Saunders
  • PDF

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