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The most comprehensive, balanced and persuasive analysis of the Winter of Discontent so far available. -- Professor Pat Thane An important book of considerable scholarship and historical technique, offering valuable alternative perspectives and significant insights into the industrial unrest of the British 'winter of discontent'. -- Professor John Shepherd

The most comprehensive, balanced and persuasive analysis of the Winter of Discontent so far available. An important book of considerable scholarship and historical technique, offering valuable alternative perspectives and significant insights into the industrial unrest of the British 'winter of discontent'. 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. 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. The book makes possible a significantly more nuanced understanding, both of the 'lived experience' of those who participated in industrial action and of the dire economic conditions from which the strikes emerged. The result is a valuable contribution to the scholarly literature on the 1970s.

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Tara Martin López is Professor of Sociology at Peninsula College. Sheila Rowbotham is Professor of History at the University of Manchester.

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