If you are a working blue collar man and suddenly at age 50+ you are being let go, it is a scary thing. And no one had a crystal ball 30 years earlier, so your career path seemed safe especially in printing because the industry stayed the same, more or less, for 150 years prior. So yes, out of fear for their future they fought back. Not to stall technology, but to allow the men nearing retirement the opportunity to do so after working a lifetime - what's wrong with that? You can not just "throw out" people because technology makes them obsolete. Provide an alternate path for those that worked 30 years as loyal employees - you don't just throw them away like a used Kleenex. Remember, YOUR job may be next!
This was the beginning of the end of the world I knew. What happened to all these workers who Murdoch sacked? I'd love to see a documentary about this. I was living in London all during this time, Fleet Street had been the press from 16th Century and here was a man, not from the UK, destroying it. It makes me want to cry looking at this.
When my dad got laid off he stayed home to raise me and my sister. My mother went out to work, but we were the fortunate ones. I was lucky to spend so much time with a father, but we always were aware of this injustice and politics as we were growing up.
Mugdoch,maxwell,salam shar all in thatchers good books destroying the unions not only the print but coal as well So glad that the mirror is dying on its knees along with the sun etc
Having spent the last few days on a deep-dive into AI, deepfakes, block-chain and machine-learning: it's mesmerizing to watch this footage. It's less than 40 years ago, and yet it seems like a different millennia. People arguing about whether wood-block printers should be replaced with automation. And a nation that is scarcely recognisable in its make up, values and politics. I don't say it was better or worse - but it was so, so different, and such a few years ago.
As an NHS employee between 1974 and 2007, I was delighted at the changes that resulted from the trades union legislation changes brought in by the Conservative governments. I was sick of the ridiculous powers that the unions believed they could wield - they held back the UK for far too long and their passing will not be missed.
Never a truer word said! And if you could have entered the printing world (But NO! Sorry, it was a closed shop!!!) you would have experienced same UNION CONTROL that thank god was eradicated...
@@martin77722 If you worked on the print you would be drawing two pay packets - one in your own name and one in the name 'Mickey Mouse' or 'Donald Duck' - only you would be too pissed by the end of your shift to remember the false name. Even Tony Benn's diaries record men being paid £100 a night (in the 80s) to play cards and the shop stewards deciding who worked and who did not. Up-to-the-date technology simply was not used because the unions wouldn't have it. So of course if you worked in the print you would disagree. But you'd be wrong, and you'd have deserved everything that was coming.
If you are a working blue collar man and suddenly at age 50+ you are being let go, it is a scary thing. And no one had a crystal ball 30 years earlier, so your career path seemed safe especially in printing because the industry stayed the same, more or less, for 150 years prior. So yes, out of fear for their future they fought back. Not to stall technology, but to allow the men nearing retirement the opportunity to do so after working a lifetime - what's wrong with that? You can not just "throw out" people because technology makes them obsolete. Provide an alternate path for those that worked 30 years as loyal employees - you don't just throw them away like a used Kleenex. Remember, YOUR job may be next!
That really wasn't what it was about. Read Alexei Sayle's memoirs.
This was the beginning of the end of the world I knew. What happened to all these workers who Murdoch sacked? I'd love to see a documentary about this. I was living in London all during this time, Fleet Street had been the press from 16th Century and here was a man, not from the UK, destroying it. It makes me want to cry looking at this.
When my dad got laid off he stayed home to raise me and my sister. My mother went out to work, but we were the fortunate ones. I was lucky to spend so much time with a father, but we always were aware of this injustice and politics as we were growing up.
thanks for posting. great stuff x
Mugdoch,maxwell,salam shar all in thatchers good books destroying the unions not only the print but coal as well
So glad that the mirror is dying on its knees along with the sun etc
Where was Keir Starmer in all this?
I hate to see the Press go by the waste side. We need the Paper
Having spent the last few days on a deep-dive into AI, deepfakes, block-chain and machine-learning: it's mesmerizing to watch this footage. It's less than 40 years ago, and yet it seems like a different millennia. People arguing about whether wood-block printers should be replaced with automation. And a nation that is scarcely recognisable in its make up, values and politics.
I don't say it was better or worse - but it was so, so different, and such a few years ago.
What's the music at 3.41? Cheers.
'Barbie Girl' by Aqua
@@GodOfVictory501 You are correct.
Thatcher sent in the army dressed as london bobbies.....THIS IS A FACT!!!
Good
@@That_Random_Bloke FUCK wit
Maurice Debnam I love you too Princess 😘 🤣🤣
Legit. They wore no numbers.
Disgraceful behaviour by Thatchers Army.
Computers had been introduced in most other western countries about 10 years earlier, yet British printworkers weren't interested in changing.
As an NHS employee between 1974 and 2007, I was delighted at the changes that resulted from the trades union legislation changes brought in by the Conservative governments. I was sick of the ridiculous powers that the unions believed they could wield - they held back the UK for far too long and their passing will not be missed.
if you had worked in the print you would have a different view on this subject
Never a truer word said! And if you could have entered the printing world (But NO! Sorry, it was a closed shop!!!) you would have experienced same UNION CONTROL that thank god was eradicated...
@@martin77722 If you worked on the print you would be drawing two pay packets - one in your own name and one in the name 'Mickey Mouse' or 'Donald Duck' - only you would be too pissed by the end of your shift to remember the false name. Even Tony Benn's diaries record men being paid £100 a night (in the 80s) to play cards and the shop stewards deciding who worked and who did not. Up-to-the-date technology simply was not used because the unions wouldn't have it.
So of course if you worked in the print you would disagree. But you'd be wrong, and you'd have deserved everything that was coming.