The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last
quarter century has been one of the most significant and
astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the
governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame
the unions?
In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was
constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of
British trade unionism in the twentieth century. Most scholars
regard Britain's industrial relations institutions as the product
of a largely laissez faire system of labor relations, punctuated by
occasional government interference. Howell, on the other hand,
argues that the British state was the prime architect of three
distinct systems of industrial relations established in the course
of the twentieth century. The book contends that governments used a
combination of administrative and judicial action, legislation, and
a narrative of crisis to construct new forms of labor
relations.
Understanding the demise of the unions requires a
reinterpretation of how these earlier systems were constructed, and
the role of the British government in that process. Meticulously
researched, "Trade Unions and the State" not only sheds new light
on one of Thatcher's most significant achievements but also tells
us a great deal about the role of the state in industrial
relations.
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