His tenure was notable for widespread industrial unrest, culminating in the [[Winter of Discontent]] of late 1978, a nationwide [[General Strike]] whose images of uncollected rubbish and unburied dead did much to keep Labour out of power for the next eighteen years. | His tenure was notable for widespread industrial unrest, culminating in the [[Winter of Discontent]] of late 1978, a nationwide [[General Strike]] whose images of uncollected rubbish and unburied dead did much to keep Labour out of power for the next eighteen years. |