03: Workers’ Playtime | Class Rule

Duration: 39'23''

Synopsis

Harold Wilson pledged to break up ''the old boy network where blue blood takes precedence over good brains''. But he eventually fell out with the people whose class interests he was supposed to represent. The growth of workers' power helped bring the successive downfall of the Wilson, Heath and Callaghan governments.

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