Eduqas GCSE History · C100
Component 1, Component 2
Revise: Industrial decline and political crisis in the 1970sDuring the Winter of Discontent of 1978–79, strikes spread across transport, road haulage and public services. Food and petrol supplies were disrupted. On 22 January 1979, an estimated 1.25 million workers joined a public-sector day of action, including NHS staff, school workers and refuse collectors.
- Revise: The Stuttering Seventies
The wave of industrial disputes in winter 1978–79 over pay restraint and falling purchasing power, which disrupted transport and public services and damaged Labour’s reputation.