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Leadership and Democracy, v. 2: 1928-1993 (Paperback)
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Leadership and Democracy, v. 2: 1928-1993 (Paperback)
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This official history of NUPE covers its years of membership
expansion, growing recognition and entry onto the national
industrial and political stage. From a position of near obscurity
in the 1920s, NUPE grew into one of the most important forces in
the trade union movement in the 1970s, playing a key role in some
of the major struggles of that decade and beyond. The authors throw
new light on NUPE's relationship with the Labour governments of
Harold Wilson and James Callaghan (1974-79), and analyse for the
first time from the union's perspective the events that became
known as the 'Winter of Discontent'. They convincingly argue that
accounts which hold the dispute responsible for the demise of the
Labour government, and thus for opening the way for Thatcherism,
are inadequate and misleading - often deliberately so; in general
such accounts are based on a deprecation of public services, public
service labour and the 'social wage'. These developments are
discussed in relation to the role of union leadership and
considerations of organisation and democracy, revealing much that
will be of interest to activists and students of trade unionism
alike.
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