Abstract
Health service workers (including some nurses) on strike: the Ford strike going ahead in the end; the pit deputies (NACODS) having their first-ever national strike; the National Union of Seamen in dispute over the Isle of Man ferries. This sudden flurry of industrial disputes is almost reminiscent of the 1970s, when the number of working days lost through strikes was far higher than now. With occasional ‘blips’, the overall trend in the number of working days lost through industrial disputes since the late 1970s has been downward.
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Braverman, H. (1974) Labour and Monopoly Capital (Monthly Review Press).
Horne, J. (1987) Work and Unemployment (Longman).
Hyman, R. (1984) Strikes (Fontana).
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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill
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McNeill, P. (1991). Strikes and Society. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_11
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