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Comrades in Conflict - Labour, the Trade Unions and 1969's in Place of Strife (Hardcover)
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Comrades in Conflict - Labour, the Trade Unions and 1969's in Place of Strife (Hardcover)
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On the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study
makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other
primary sources to explain why Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle
embarked on legislation to regulate the trade unions and curb
strikes, and why this aroused such strong opposition, not just from
the unions, but within the Cabinet and among backbench Labour MPs.
This opposition transcended the orthodox ideological divisions,
making temporary allies of traditional adversaries in the Party.
Even Wilson's threats either to resign, or call a general election,
if his MPs and Ministers failed to support him and Castle, were
treated with derision. His colleagues called Wilson's bluff, and
forced him to abandon the legislation, in return for a 'solemn and
binding' pledge by the trade unions to 'put their own house in
order' in tackling strikes. -- .
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