Union leader Frank Cousins addresses the 1966 Labour Party Conference during the economic debate.
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TopFotoThe period between 1951 and 1970 is generally characterised by historians as one of consensus in which government, trade unions and industry participated in decision-making within a 'corporate state'.
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Further reading
- Pelling, H., The History of British Trade Unionism (London: Macmillan, 1987)
- Taylor, R., The Trade Union Question in British Politics: Government and the Unions since 1945 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993)
- Middlemass, K., Power, Competition and the State, Vol. 1: Britain in Search of Balance, 1940-1961 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986)
- Middlemass, K., Power, Competition and the State, Vol. 2: Threats to the Postwar Settlement, Britain, 1961-1974 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990)
