Facing Up to Thatcherism

Roger Seifert read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University before taking an M.Sc. in Economics and later a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics. He worked for Incomes Data Service before joining Keele University where he is now Professor of Industrial Relations.Mike Ironside read Mechanical Engineering at Aston University and then became a local government officer and a trade union activist. He took an MA in Industrial Relations and worked as a research officer for a trade union before joining Keele University as a lecturer in 1990.

• 1. NALGO: What Kind of Trade Union? ; 2. NALGO 1905 to 1978 ; 3. The Advent of Thatcherism ; 4. The Squeeze Tightens ; 5. Thatcherites Versus the Trade Union Movement ; 6. Privatization and the Retreat from National Bargaining ; 7. Storms: Financial, Climatic, and Industrial ; 8. Shake it All About: Into the 1990s ; 9. NALGO's Last Year ; 10. In UNISON

deserves to be widely read. It is a work of academic distinction and is informed by an understanding attitude to trade unionism set out in its opening chapter ... provides a radical commentary on the theory of industrial relations and throws new light on the damaging consequences of Thatcher's period of office.