The High Tide of British Trade Unionism?: Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1964-1979

Exploring the exciting, turbulent period in labor history from 1964 to 1979, this volume of path-breaking analysis recalls an era of popular mythology and political discourse, examining how workers unions nearly drove Britain into the ground. It cites as a proponent such figures as Transport Workers’ leader Jack Jones and reveals how this turbulence eventually set the stage for Thatcherism and 1980s reform.