1 JANUARY 1983, page 15

Unions Without Muscle

Peter Paterson T he automatic assumption that you have to go back to 1926 and the collapse of the General Strike for comparative pur- poses whenever the trade union movement is......

Bookshop Days

David Taylor W hen I worked in a bookshop — a bookshop, incidentally, possessing an extensive clientele with varied interests — we scarcely sold a single copy of those books......