Prof Ralph Darlington R.R.Darlington@salford.ac.uk
Britain : Striking unionism with a political cutting edge
Darlington, RR
Authors
Contributors
H Connolly
Editor
L Kretsos
Editor
C Phelan
Editor
Abstract
Compared with the wave of general strikes that have swept across Europe since 2009, the response of UK trade unions to the global financial crisis and government austerity measures has been rather more muted. However, in March 2011 there was the largest ever trade union protest demonstration in Britain’s history involving half a million workers, which was followed in November by a one-day public sector general strike of 2.5 million workers which represented the biggest industrial confrontation since the miners’ strike in 1984–5 and the biggest single day of strike action in Britain since the 1926 General Strike. Although nowhere nearly as extensive or prolonged as Greek, Spanish or French-style union organised resistance, the rising levels of strike activity against austerity have led to an upsurge in membership levels for a number of unions combined with renewed levels of engagement and collective organisation (Labour Research, February 2012).
Citation
Darlington, R. (2014). Britain : Striking unionism with a political cutting edge. In H. Connolly, L. Kretsos, & C. Phelan (Eds.), Radical Unions in Europe and the Future of Collective Interest Representation (68-88). Oxford: Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0599-9/6
Publication Date | Apr 16, 2014 |
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Deposit Date | Feb 16, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 5, 2020 |
Pages | 68-88 |
Series Title | Trade Unions. Past, Present and Future |
Series Number | 20 |
Book Title | Radical Unions in Europe and the Future of Collective Interest Representation |
ISBN | 9783034308038-(paperback);-9783035305999-(online);-9783035399615-(online) |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0599-9/6 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0599-9/6 |
Related Public URLs | https://www.peterlang.com/ https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0599-9 |
Additional Information | Projects : Dynamics, Limites and Potential of Radicalised Political Unionism in France and Britain |
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