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A paper which looks at the development of labour relations from the postwar settlement to the present day, with particular reference to the impact which successive governments have had on trade unions. Bibliography lists 4 sources
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If one is assessing the development of labour relations in Britain over the past few decades, it is necessary to take into account not only
the interaction between unions and management but also the impact which government policies, and changes in the political ideology of the country, have had on the structure of labour relations.
One can trace, for example, a radical change in the structure and function of the trade unions, in the period between 1945 and the present day, which has in large
part been due to the social and economic policies of successive governments.
As noted by margaretthatcher.net (2004), the immediate postwar period was one of growth and development, leading to the comment that Britain had "never had it so
good" in the 1950s. However, even with the perceptible rise in prosperity, it was also felt that in some ways Britain was falling behind the growth evinced by other parts
of the world, especially Western Europe, leading to a series of debates on the possible causes of this perceived decline. By the 1960s the socialist viewpoint was that a lack
of investment in industry was the major factor, to which the response was the development of Thatcherism.
Thatcherism, as delineated primarily by Keith Joseph (rather than Thatcher herself) asserted that the main cause of economic decline in
the country was the postwar settlement and the presence of the trade unions. Keynesianism, which underpinned postwar economics and focused on high growth and low unemployment, was seen as unsatisfactory
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