Abstract
‘Never, in the reporting of industrial conflict have so many heard so much about so few.’ The Grunwick strike provides an example of how a small conflict may be exploited to obtain publicity for wider causes. This was done by both sides, one with skill and the other with a series of errors which led to the total failure of the strike.
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Notes and References
For a full account of the Grunwick dispute see Joe Rogaly, Grunwick (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977) and
Lord Justice Scarman, Report of Inquiry into the Dispute between the Grunwick Processing Laboratories and Members of APEX, Cmnd 6922 (London: HMSO, 1977). Also Clutterbuck, Britain in Agony, ch. 16.
A Press Association photograph showing this was printed in the first edition of Clutterbuck’s Britain in Agony (London: Faber and Faber, 1978, facing p. 192). This shows what appears to be a predominantly student crowd bending the police cordon in front of a car. The placards with the ‘scab’ photographs are held up on poles by demonstrators at the back.
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Clutterbuck, R. (1983). Grunwick. In: The Media and Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06580-6_3
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