The Wales TUC is the national institution representing the organised workers of Wales. Joe England seeks to explain and assess its achievements over the past thirty years of dramatic change: the rundown of the coal and steel industries, the decline in manufacturing jobs, the growth of white-collar employment and unions, the Thatcher and Major years of high unemployment and industrial law reform, and the increasing numbers of low-paid part-time workers, most of them women.Throughout the period the Wales TUC has negotiated with a succession of Secretaries of State of varying persuasions,...
The Wales TUC is the national institution representing the organised workers of Wales. Joe England seeks to explain and assess its achievements over t...