Crisis? What Crisis?: The Callaghan Government and the British 'Winter of Discontent'

by John Shepherd

Book Overview

Over thirty years later, the 'winter of discontent' of 1978-79 still resonates in British politics. On 22 January 1979, 1.5 million workers were on strike and industrial unrest swept Britain in an Arctic winter. Militant shop stewards blocked medical supplies to hospitals, mountains of rubbish remained uncollected, striking road hauliers threatened to bring the country to a standstill. Even the dead were left unburied. Within weeks, the beleaguered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784991155
• ISBN13: 9781784991159
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"