{"title":"Striking Facts about the ‘Winter of Discontent’","authors":"Dave Lyddon","doi":"10.3828/HSIR.2015.36.8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The recent books by John Shepherd and Tara Martin Lopez on the Winter of Discontent of 1978–79 provide an opportunity to examine the experience and tactics of several of its strikes and to challenge standard statistical views of its strike record. The main conclusion is to stress the continuity of the local authority and National Health Service disputes of 1979 with their antecedents from 1969 to 1973. Evidence is provided to show that previous instances of mountains of rubbish and unburied corpses did not attract much opprobrium (it is likely that earlier industrial action in the NHS was also generally tolerated). The sensationalization of events by politicians (of both hues) and by some of the media was contingent on a particular set of economic and political circumstances.","PeriodicalId":36746,"journal":{"name":"Historical Studies in Industrial Relations","volume":"1 1","pages":"205-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/HSIR.2015.36.8","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Historical Studies in Industrial Relations","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3828/HSIR.2015.36.8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The recent books by John Shepherd and Tara Martin Lopez on the Winter of Discontent of 1978–79 provide an opportunity to examine the experience and tactics of several of its strikes and to challenge standard statistical views of its strike record. The main conclusion is to stress the continuity of the local authority and National Health Service disputes of 1979 with their antecedents from 1969 to 1973. Evidence is provided to show that previous instances of mountains of rubbish and unburied corpses did not attract much opprobrium (it is likely that earlier industrial action in the NHS was also generally tolerated). The sensationalization of events by politicians (of both hues) and by some of the media was contingent on a particular set of economic and political circumstances.
约翰·谢泼德(John Shepherd)和塔拉·马丁·洛佩斯(Tara Martin Lopez)最近出版的关于1978-79年不满的冬天的书,提供了一个机会来研究它的几次罢工的经验和策略,并挑战其罢工记录的标准统计观点。主要结论是强调1979年的地方当局和国家保健服务纠纷与其1969年至1973年的前身的连续性。有证据表明,以前堆积如山的垃圾和未埋葬的尸体并没有引起太多的谴责(很可能NHS早期的工业行动也普遍被容忍)。政客(两派)和一些媒体对事件的耸人听闻是取决于特定的经济和政治环境。