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The Winter of Discontent was the period between November 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing, against Trades Union Congress ...
Jun 30, 2022 · The ‘Winter of Discontent’ began on 24 August 1978, when Ford car workers put in a claim for a £20 per week rise and a 35-hour week, which amounted to a rise of 25 per cent in annual pay. They were offered 5 per cent, and on 22 September 1978 they struck. Around nine weeks later, the strike settled with a 16.5 per cent wage increase.
By William Shakespeare. (from Richard III, spoken by Gloucester) Now is the winter of our discontent. Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house. In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Jan 17, 2019 · There may currently be uncertainty surrounding Brexit now, but 40 years ago, the UK was plunged into chaos. It became known as the winter of discontent. 17 January 2019. 2 minutes. What was the...
The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York".
- John Steinbeck
- 311 pp
- 1961
- 1961
On October 17, at Saratoga in eastern New York, American forces, under the command of Gen. Horatio Gates, inflicted the first major defeat of the war on the redcoats, their German mercenary ...
‘The Winter of Discontent’ has assumed a mythic character. According to legend, this was the time when rampant greedy trade unionists held the country to ransom; when the fruits of the capitalist good life withered, to be rescued at the eleventh hour by the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister.
