Dustmens Dispute-February 1979

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Uploaded by on Sep 30, 2009

A wonderful snapshot of Britain in the late seveties. It was strikes like this that led people voting overwhelmingly for Margaret Thatcher and which took this nation along a path of monetarism and privitisation. The debates still rage as to whether this was a good thing or not.
The strike itself concerned those workers that were generally considered to be on low pay and who despite the government recently having imposed a restraint on pay. This action along with many others (I hope to be uploading clips in the near future) occurred in a time now often referred to as The Winter Of Discontent. At its height the strikes that occurred during this time affected almost a fifth of Britains work force.

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  • the effect labour has before our eyes labour has always been...rubbish

  • imagine if you were kid...you could have a snowball fight..with rat shit lol

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  • @RJAY63 Truly thank you! I have been looking for this film for years now. Thanks again!

  • @Szederp That film is called 'Ratcatcher' (1999) but it's set in Scotland (Glasgow), not England.

  • Thank you for the upload. There was - I think - an English tragedy movie, set in the era of the dustmen's strike, but I cannot recall its name...

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