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

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

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