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Trade unions: everything you wanted to know

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What's Happening in the Industrial Sector in the Seventies?

By the seventies, the british economy is not in a good state. It's held together by sor of string and chewing gum. And as you start to look at wages, wile wages fall behind. You've also got people being brought in who want to re structure some of the industries. A huge change from there onwards for industry and for trade unions. Yes, just briefly, a popular insnetsach career around this is what was the winter of discontent. That's the term i sure a lot of people have heard of.

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