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The Queen's jubilee: How Britain has changed since 1952

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The Trade Unions - The Most Powerful in the Industrial Revolution

In the 19 seventies, about 50 % of all employees were members of a trade union. That is now about 23% and most of those are in the public sector these days. "I think we're just going to see our living standards drop a bit," he says. But ov the r m t was powerful then, and i think it's pretty much the only union that could still do that sort of thing now"

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