Crisis? What crisis? The Callaghan government and the British ‘winter of discontent’

• Main Author: Shepherd, John
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Manchester University Press 2013
• Subjects: JA Political science (General); JN101 Great Britain; Arctic; New Ground
• Online Access: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/18804/; http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719082474

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. Industrial unrest swept Britain in an Arctic winter. Militant shop stewards blocked medical supplies to hospitals; mountains of rubbish remained...