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The Fifth Estate - Britain's Unions in the Seventies (Paperback)
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The Fifth Estate - Britain's Unions in the Seventies (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
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First published in 1978. Britain's unions were blamed by many
people for the country's post-war economic decline. Portrayed as
greedy wreckers who wanted to run the country, they had become
scapegoats for the state of the nation. This anatomy of Britain's
diverse and complex trade union movement sets out to question that
widespread opinion. The main argument advanced in the study is that
unions in Britain were too weak, not too strong. From the 1940s
until the 1970s, Robert Taylor believes, they had failed to achieve
the constructive influence over British society that union
movements elsewhere in western Europe had managed to gain.
Considering the major and medium-sized unions separately, he
examines the sudden and rapid growth of unionisation in Britain,
the structure of the unions, their effectiveness, the influence
they had, their international record, and the nature of trade union
democracy.
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