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Crisis? What crisis? : The Callaghan government and the British 'winter of discontent' /

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 rubbis...

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Autor principal: Shepherd, John, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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