History GCSE
Trade union power and the state
What Trade union power and the state means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Trade union power and the state
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The Miners’ Strike of 1984–1985 set a powerful trade union against a government that used police and law to win, testing where sovereignty lay.
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