"No lugar do conflito", a lei? Trabalhistas e conservadores na crise do fordismo britânico (1968-1972).

The crisis of Fordism implemented in post-World War II Europe began to show its most explicit symptoms at the end of the 1960s, during a period of growing organizational strength among the working class. In the British case, the inflationary spiral and the low productivity of the economy began to have as a scapegoat the design of industrial relations in that country defined in the first decades of the 20th century. In this paper, we will analyse the first two attempts to get around the trade union issue in the period: the proposal for state control and interference by Labour based on the In Place of Strife bill at the end of the first Wilson government (1964- 1970) and the failure of the attempt at judicialization and control contained in the Industrial Relations Act by the Conservatives led by Edward Heath in 1972. In common, the attempt by the British ruling classes, through the state and the law, to bend the organized power of labor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]