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A critical history of grasssroots labour struggles from the 1970s to today that calls for a new politics of trade unionism.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Focussing on the Rank and File
Part One: What Happened
1. The Upsurge: 1968–74
2. ‘How Little It Asked’ (The Working Class): 1974–79
3. Gone With the Wind: Thatcher, Reagan and the early 1980s
4. Against the Stream: 1894–9
5. The Workers’ TINA: Class Warfare in the 1990s
6. Into the 2000s: Seattle ... and September
Part Two: What to Make of It All
7. Unions & Unions
8. Punctuation Marks: A Story of Class Consciousness
9. Transitions and Transformations: Which Side Are You On?
Glossary
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/09/2006
      ISBN13: 9780745315294, 978-0745315294
      ISBN10: 0745315291

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A critical history of grasssroots labour struggles from the 1970s to today that calls for a new politics of trade unionism.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Focussing on the Rank and File
      Part One: What Happened
      1. The Upsurge: 1968–74
      2. ‘How Little It Asked’ (The Working Class): 1974–79
      3. Gone With the Wind: Thatcher, Reagan and the early 1980s
      4. Against the Stream: 1894–9
      5. The Workers’ TINA: Class Warfare in the 1990s
      6. Into the 2000s: Seattle ... and September
      Part Two: What to Make of It All
      7. Unions & Unions
      8. Punctuation Marks: A Story of Class Consciousness
      9. Transitions and Transformations: Which Side Are You On?
      Glossary
      Notes
      Index

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