{"product_id":"9781526166012-who-governs-britain","title":"Who Governs Britain?: Trade Unions, the Conservative Party and the Failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971: 16 (New Perspectives on the Right","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrade Unions, the Conservative Party and the Failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971\u003cbr\u003eThis book analyses the 1970-74 Conservative Government’s failure to ‘depoliticise’ its role in industrial relations as it imposed a new legal framework to discipline trade unions. Through analysis of recently released primary documents, it provides new insights into the strategic failings and industrial disputes that brought down the government.\u003cbr\u003eProviding fresh insights from the archival record, \u003ci\u003eWho governs Britain? \u003c\/i\u003erevisits the 1970-74 Conservative government to explain why the Party tried – and failed – to reform the system of industrial relations. Designed to tackle Britain’s strike problem and perceived disorder in collective bargaining, the Industrial Relations Act 1971 established a formal legal framework to counteract trade union power. As the state attempted to disengage from and ‘depoliticise’ collective bargaining practices, trade union leaders and employers were instructed to discipline industry. In just three-and-a-half years, the Act contributed to a crisis of the British state as industrial unrest engulfed industry and risked undermining the rule of law. Warner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the power dynamics, strategic errors and industrial battles that destroyed this attempt to tame trade unions and ultimately brought down a government, and that shape Conservative attitudes towards trade unions to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40790742138977,"sku":"9781526166012","price":108.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27249380.jpg?v=1721637467","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526166012-who-governs-britain","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}