After Robbie Gilbert, special advisor to former Employment Secretary of State Jim Prior, Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Bradford, is taking stock of the Thatcher as regards industrial relations in the UK. (Ref. 130245)
The death of former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, in early April has rekindled a longstanding debate in public policy on her legacy for employment relations in Britain. She was Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, and oversaw the most radical reconfiguration of the regulation of employment in a generation.
This radicalism stems from the overturning of many of the key components of the ‘post-war settlement’, the term used to describe a form of social democracy based on a) tri-partism or corporatism where the government consulted widely with both unions and employers over policy and its implementation; b) regulation of the employment relationship to aid employees; and c) institutional support for unions and collective bargaining.
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