To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. Se ha producido un problema al guardar tus preferencias de cookies. Por favor, inténtalo de nuevo más tarde. Amazon Prime: envíos rápidos, GRATIS e ilimitados y mucho más. This site uses cookies. Book Review: The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory, and History. Martin Lopez also illustrates how the familial, domestic sphere was crucial; female interviewees link experiences with domestic violence and divorce in their private lives to their desire for new roles at home and in their feminist and labour activism. También analiza las reseñas para verificar la fiabilidad. Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. She reminds us that only by accounting for migrant women entering the British workforce and the larger gendered dimensions of the unrest can we fully understand the Winter of Discontent. Robert Saunders, The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory and History . You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches". Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this book to your organisation's collection. ‘The Winter of Discontent’ has assumed a mythic character. Martin Lopez deepens understandings of women's contributions to the care industry with her chapter on NHS female workers from former colonial countries. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. To send content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org © 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. With the Partition of India in 1947 and the ongoing independence of former British holdings in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, the decline of empire is a crucial facet to the tale of labour unrest, the changing character of trade unions, and the composition of public sector and care industry workers in 1978 and 1979. Overall, this fascinating book illuminates the nuanced contours of myth, memory, and history of the Winter of Discontent. Descárgate una de las apps de Kindle gratuitas para comenzar a leer libros Kindle en tu smartphone, tablet u ordenador. The right deployed history as a proxy for ‘ideology’, mobilizing the authority of experience behind Conservative political positions. En su lugar, nuestro sistema considera aspectos como lo reciente que es la reseña y si el reseñador compró el artículo en Amazon. Note you can select to send to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. Robert Saunders, Twentieth Century British History 'Lopez's study focuses - as the title suggests - on the creation of the myths that surrounded the Winter of Discontent, and their subsequent repackaging and reiteration in the 1980s and beyond. Lopez’s study focuses – as the title suggests – on the creation of the myths that surrounded the Winter of Discontent, and their subsequent repackaging and reiteration in the 1980s and beyond. For most of the twentieth century, party identity in Britain drew heavily on narratives about the past. The politics of the left were underpinned by a school of ‘labour history’, propagated not just in university history departments but in working men’s clubs, labour colleges and the Workers’ Educational Association. Their tactics were successful, and they won the election. They claimed that the Labour Party was powerless to control its trade unions. This article is also available for rental through DeepDyve. Most users should sign in with their email address. Her nuanced examination of women’s activism; the role of black, West Indian and Asian female workers; and the changing gender dynamics within trade unions provides a crucial intervention in the scholarly understanding of this moment in modern British history. Labour's subsequent electoral defeat at the hands of the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher ushered in an era of unprecedented political, economic, and social change for Britain. In the midst of the freezing winter of 1978-79, more than 2,000 strikes, infamously coined the "Winter of Discontent", erupted across Britain as workers rejected the then Labour Government's attempts to curtail wage increases with an incomes policy. With the Partition of India in 1947 and the ongoing independence of former British holdings in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, the decline of empire is a crucial facet to the tale of labour unrest, the changing character of trade unions, and the composition of public sector and care industry workers in 1978 and 1979. Utilising a number of previously unseen sources, especially some stimulating and thought-provoking interviews with a number of those who participated on various sides of the 1978/9 industrial disputes, the study provides an important addition to the ever-growing historiography of late-twentieth-century British political history.' Prueba a realizar la solicitud de nuevo. Poignant images of picketing gravediggers and heaping piles of garbage in the press contributed to an atmosphere of fiscal and political crisis. Get this from a library! , Twentieth Century British History, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2016, Pages 163–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwu070. Correspondence to Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares para mejorar tu experiencia de compra, prestar nuestros servicios, entender cómo los utilizas para poder mejorarlos, y para mostrarte anuncios. By Tara Martin López. Lean Library can solve it. Part of Springer Nature. Thatcher and the Conservative Party made use of the strikes during their campaign. She views the Winter of Discontent through the wider changes in gendered work, immigration and feminist activism occurring in British society. Tara Martin Lopez is Professor of Sociology at Peninsula College. Sign in here to access free tools such as favourites and alerts, or to access personal subscriptions, If you have access to journal content via a university, library or employer, sign in here, Research off-campus without worrying about access issues. The British state forced them to earn ancillary nursing qualifications, which limited their upward wage mobility.

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