Crisis? What Crisis? - The Callaghan Government and the British Winter of Discontent

Informationen zum Autor John Shepherd is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Huddersfield Klappentext The first full length account of the 1979 'winter of discontent' Zusammenfassung The first full length account of the 1979 'winter of discontent' -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Winters of discontent2. Government, unions and the collapse of the Social Contract3. The Ford strike, 19784. The oil tanker drivers' dispute and the road hauliers' strike 5. Public sector strikes6. Media coverage7. The Conservative party and the 'winter of discontent'8. Political aftermath 9. Winter of discontent: a view from abroadChronologyBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: John Shepherd, Shepherd John
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9780719082474
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8247-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Politics & government, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies