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[[Image:Ford strike 1978.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Strikes began when 72,000 Ford workers "downed tools" and walked off the job, leaving 23 Ford factories across the country empty.]]
The phrase '''Winter of Discontent''' refers to the [[British]] winter of 1978-1979, when widespread [[Industrial action|strikes]] marked the largest stoppage of labour since the [[1926 General Strike]] as the working classes and the [[Trade Union]]s rebelled against the [[socialism|socialist]] government incumbent at the time. The period was marked by food shortages, power cuts, household refuse uncollected, and even the dead were left unburied.
The phrase '''Winter of Discontent''' refers to the [[British]] winter of 1978-1979, when widespread [[Industrial action|strikes]] marked the largest stoppage of labour since the [[1926 General Strike]] as the working classes and the [[Trade Union]]s rebelled against the [[socialism|socialist]] government incumbent at the time. The period was marked by food shortages, power cuts, household refuse uncollected, and even the dead were left unburied.
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