Who Governs Britain? - Trade Unions, Conservative Party Failure of Industrial Relations Act

This book analyses the 1970-74 Conservative Government's failure to 'depoliticise' its role in industrial relations as it imposed a new legal framework to discipline trade unions. Through analysis of recently released primary documents, it provides new insights into the strategic failings and industrial disputes that brought down the government.

Summary

This book analyses the 1970-74 Conservative Government’s failure to ‘depoliticise’ its role in industrial relations as it imposed a new legal framework to discipline trade unions. Through analysis of recently released primary documents, it provides new insights into the strategic failings and industrial disputes that brought down the government. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Sam Warner, Warner Sam
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781526166012
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6601-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: New Perspectives on the Right
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Labor & Employment, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Constitution: government & the state, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Constitution: government and the state, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions, Industrial relations & trade unions law, Industrial relations and trade unions law