# Unions and Social Conflict

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Successive laws restricted trade-union power, and the 1984–85 miners' strike became the decisive confrontation between the government and organized labor. The government's victory changed workplace politics, but the strike and pit closures left enduring economic and social wounds in mining communities.

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