Resurgence of class conflict in Western since 1968/edited by Colin Crouch and Alessandro Pizzorno

No matter what indicators are used -- nurnber of strikes, working days lost, increasing political conflict - the late 1960s were remarkable as period of intensifying industrial unrest in several Western European countries. The ramifications of the initial wave of conflict continued to IT the 1970s until the international recession led to an at least temporary decline as dramatic; the initial upsurge. As a whole the phenomenon shattered the assumptions of social scientists the early 1960s that the age of major industrial conflict was past.
In a project financed by the Ford Foundation a group of political sociologists and industrial relations specialists in six countries set out to evaluate the causes, significance and internal dynamics of this resurgence of militancy. The results of their studies are presented in the two volumes which make up the present work.

Volume 1 of The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe Since 1968 sets out the detailed factual record and central problems interpretation in the individual countries covered: Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands the United Kingdom and West Germany. It, establishes the general statistical outline of the increase in strike activity.

In Volume 2, Comparative Analyses, the main themes of interest arising from the study are considered in a comparative context: the pat of conflict and new forms of action; associated changes in occupational structure; the shift i relations between the shop floor and trade union organisations; the role of political part the changing position of the state; the economic background; and the relationship between industrial militancy and other areas of increasing class conflict.