Comrades in Conflict: Labour, the Trade Unions and 1969's in Place of Strife

by Peter Dorey

Book Overview

On the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other primary sources to explain why Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle embarked on legislation to regulate the trade unions and curb strikes, and why this aroused such strong opposition, not just from the unions, but within the Cabinet and among backbench Labour MPs. This opposition transcended the orthodox ideological divisions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152614803X
• ISBN13: 9781526148032
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"