Desperate Responses
Richard Hyman, 5 April 1984
Industry, Unions and Government: Twenty-One Years of NEDC
by Keith Middlemas.
Macmillan, 240 pp., £17.50, January 1984,0 333 35121 5 Show More
by Keith Middlemas.
Macmillan, 240 pp., £17.50, January 1984,
Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946-73
by J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy and G.P. Redman.
Allen and Unwin, 448 pp., £20, November 1983,0 04 331093 1 Show More
by J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy and G.P. Redman.
Allen and Unwin, 448 pp., £20, November 1983,
Picketing: Industrial Disputes, Tactics and the Law
by Peggy Kahn, Norman Lewis, Rowland Livock and Paul Wiles.
Routledge, 223 pp., £5.95, April 1983,0 7100 9534 1 Show More
by Peggy Kahn, Norman Lewis, Rowland Livock and Paul Wiles.
Routledge, 223 pp., £5.95, April 1983,
“... incomes policy and labour legislation, precedes the authors’ general conclusions. The lay reader will need to labour hard to derive meaning from this massive study. Its statistical detail is overwhelming. The preoccupation with a historical record concluding a decade ago is perplexingly antiquarian, given the radical changes which have occurred ... ”