Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The 1945 Labour Government: the mixed economy and wage restraint
- 2 Incomes policy and Labour in opposition
- 3 The voluntary incomes policy agreement
- 4 The devaluation of voluntarism
- 5 The politics of wage freeze
- 6 The statutory incomes policy – Labour Government versus labour movement
- 7 ‘In place of strife’
- 8 Industrial militancy and political stagnation
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- 1 Public opinion and incomes policy, 1965–1968
- 2 1968 survey of trade union opinion on incomes policy
- 3 Economic indicators
- 4 Interviews
- Notes
- Index
2 - 1968 survey of trade union opinion on incomes policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The 1945 Labour Government: the mixed economy and wage restraint
- 2 Incomes policy and Labour in opposition
- 3 The voluntary incomes policy agreement
- 4 The devaluation of voluntarism
- 5 The politics of wage freeze
- 6 The statutory incomes policy – Labour Government versus labour movement
- 7 ‘In place of strife’
- 8 Industrial militancy and political stagnation
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- 1 Public opinion and incomes policy, 1965–1968
- 2 1968 survey of trade union opinion on incomes policy
- 3 Economic indicators
- 4 Interviews
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The survey was conducted by the Centre for Television Research, University of Leeds, in July 1968. Its main purpose was to discern the influence of the mass media on various levels of union membership. I am indebted to Dr Jay Blumler for making the data on incomes policy, which has not previously been used, available to me.
The sample was drawn from membership in the AEF, NALGO, SOGAT and GMWU in Leeds; it was found that despite the GMWU's official support for the policy, its members were no more disposed to the policy than those in the AEF, although both were more favourable to it than SOGAT members whose union leadership had opposed the policy consistently since the summer of 1965. It was the white-collar NALGO membership, whose occupations were the most ‘middle-class’ (in terms of status rather than income) who responded more favourably than other trade unionists at this time to the incomes policy. The difficulty of making even a TUC policy viable, was indicated by the fact that only 13% of the rank and file, 16% of shop stewards and 24% of officials considered helping the TUC to run its policy a top union priority.
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- Social Democracy and Industrial MilitiancyThe Labour Party, the Trade Unions and Incomes Policy, 1945–1947, pp. 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976