POLI20532 Course Outline 1112 - School of Social Sciences

Peter Dorey
Peter Dorey
Timothy Heppell et al
POLI20532: Course Guide 2011-12
‘From "policy for incomes" to incomes policy’ and
‘Industrial relations imbroglio’ in Dorey (ed.) The
Labour governments, 1964-1970 (2006)
Wage politics in Britain : the rise and fall of incomes
policies since 1945 (2001)
‘Ideological alignments within the parliamentary
Labour Party and the leadership election of 1976’,
British Politics, 5, 1 (2010)
Ben Pimlott & C Cook Trade Unions in British Politics (1982).
Peter Jenkins
The Battle of Downing Street (1970). Contemporary
account of the In Place of Strife episode.
John Kelly Trade Unions and Socialist Politics (1988).
Ross Martin The TUC: the growth of a pressure group 1868-1976
(1980), esp. pp. 298-324.
David Marsh
The New Politics of British Trade Unionism: union
power and the Thatcher legacy (1992), chs 1-3
John McIlroy Trade Unions in Britain Today (1995 edn), ch. 2,
Lewis Minkin
Leo Panitch
Jim Phillips
Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor
Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor
Richard Tyler
Noel Whiteside
'Unions, economy and society', photocopies in HD
The Contentious Alliance. Trade Unions and the
Labour Party, 1986. (Broad historical overview with
more detailed analysis of 1970s-80s.)
Social Democracy and Industrial Militancy. The
Labour Party, trade unions and incomes policy 1945-
1975 (1976).
‘The 1972 Miners' Strike: Popular Agency and
Industrial Politics in Britain’, Contemporary British
History, 20, 2, 2006, 187-208
The Trade Unions and the Labour Party (1987), esp.
ch. 7: 'Voters, policy and the unions'.
'The [Conservative] Party and the Trade Unions' in
Seldon and Ball, The Conservative Century.
The Trade Union Question in British Politics since
1945, 1993. (Excellent on the attitudes of politicians
and opinion-formers as well as the TUC itself).
‘The Heath government and industrial relations.
Myth and reality’ in Ball and Seldon The Heath
Government 1970-1974, pp. 161-90.
'Victims of our History'? Barbara Castle and In
Place of Strife, Contemporary British History, 20, 30,
2006, 461-76
'Aiming at consensus: social welfare and industrial
relations 1939-79' in Chris Wrigley, ed. A history of
British industrial relations, 1939-1979 (1996).
6.5 Exam preparation
By the mid-1970s, some commentators claimed Britain was becoming ungovernable.
Most of them had in mind issues of social and political order or ‘authority’, and the
threat allegedly posed this by currents of unrest or subversion from below. Another
way of looking at it might focus on the inability of successive governments to deliver
on commitments made within the terms of the post-war settlement, and on the forms
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