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The Emasculation of Labour

In: State, Capital and Labour

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  • Gill Ursell

    (Trinity and All Saints College)

  • Paul Blyton

    (UWIST)

Abstract

If the 1970s contained the high water mark of labour’s influence, the tide has clearly turned in more recent years. Indeed, to continue for a moment this aqueous analogy, several undertowing currents were already present by the 1970s, handicapping labour’s advance and indicating the means of its subsequent decline. Yet, whereas tides flow as well as ebb, there are indications that both employers and the state have erected strong sea-walls to reduce the likelihood of any future return to the levels of dependency on labour witnessed in the 1960s and early 1970s. What is remarkable is how a series of factors have coincided—not wholly fortuitously, as we shall see—to diminish the position of labour vis-à-vis both state and capital.

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  • Gill Ursell & Paul Blyton, 1988. "The Emasculation of Labour," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: State, Capital and Labour, chapter 7, pages 152-190, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-19514-5_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19514-5_7
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