Wars of Position: Trade Unions

Abstract

In the more polemic assessments of a decade of Conservative administration, critics and supporters have argued that there was a general design: either a long, clear vision of a new order, or ‘a hegemonic project’ to alter the balance of power in British society. Ten years after 1979 it may be asked what evidence there is for either, given the haphazard nature of much that was done, the ebb and flow of government determination, the incremental nature of almost all policies.