RESTRUCTURING BRITISH PUBLIC-SECTOR INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS - STATE POLICIES AND TRADE-UNION RESPONSES

This article examines how Conservative governments restructured public sector industrial relations in Britain between 1979 and 1997, and ide ntifies the main components of trade union strategic response to chang e. It argues that Conservative policy is important for its impact upon trade union strategy and practice, and that public sector unions cons titute the leading edge of trade union strategic modernization in Brit ain.