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Crisis? What Crisis? - The Callaghan Government and the British 'Winter of Discontent' (Hardcover)
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Crisis? What Crisis? - The Callaghan Government and the British 'Winter of Discontent' (Hardcover)
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Over thirty years later, the 'winter of discontent' of 1978-1979
still resonates in British politics. On 22 January 1979, one and a
half 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
beleaguered Callaghan Labour Government fell from power. In the
1979 general election, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister,
beginning eighteen years of unbroken Conservative rule. Based on a
wide range of newly available historical sources and key
interviews, this full-length account breaks new ground, analysing
the origins, character and impact of a turbulent period of
industrial unrest. This important study will appeal to all those
interested in contemporary history and British politics.
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