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*Education - teachers suffered large scale redundancies for the first time in living memory.  
 
*Education - teachers suffered large scale redundancies for the first time in living memory.  
 
*Prices - doubled between February 1974 and December 1978.  
 
*Prices - doubled between February 1974 and December 1978.  
*Jobs - an average of 1,000 a day went in Labour's first three years. Unemployment was 500,000 in 1974. It reached 1.6 million in 1976.  
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*Jobs - an average of 1,000 a day went in Labour's first three years. [[Unemployment]] was 500,000 in 1974. It reached 1.6 million in 1976.  
 
*Wages - a family of four on average earnings was worse off in 1979 than in 1974.<ref name="swo">''Winter of Discontent 1978-9: We struck because Labour betrayed us'' (2002) [http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=11511 Socialist Worker Online]. Retrieved 20 November 2008</ref>  
 
*Wages - a family of four on average earnings was worse off in 1979 than in 1974.<ref name="swo">''Winter of Discontent 1978-9: We struck because Labour betrayed us'' (2002) [http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=11511 Socialist Worker Online]. Retrieved 20 November 2008</ref>  
  
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