Backing Britain Campaign, 1968
1968 1961-70 "Backing Britain Campaign, 1968" [BW0204], 1968, Trades Union Congress I'm Backing Britain was a patriotic campaign started in December 1967, when five Surbiton secretaries volunteered to work an extra half an hour each day without pay in order to boost productivity, and...
| Institution: | TUC - Trade Union Congress Library |
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| Language: | English |
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London
1968
United Kingdom |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/EE9527F8-E8F1-46B2-B851-F027CDF7B064 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/BADD1E31-1C04-4BC7-85AF-660D9CF0CED5 |
| Summary: | 1968
1961-70
"Backing Britain Campaign, 1968" [BW0204], 1968, Trades Union Congress
I'm Backing Britain was a patriotic campaign started in December 1967, when five Surbiton secretaries volunteered to work an extra half an hour each day without pay in order to boost productivity, and urged others to do the same. There was an enormous media response and a campaign took off, becoming a nationwide movement within a week. As shown in this article from the Transport and General Workers' Union TGWU Record for February 1968, trade unions were suspicious of the campaign as an attempt to extend working hours and to hide inefficiency by management.
In January, Pye Records issued a 45 rpm single sung by Bruce Forsyth supporting the campaign. However, on 12 February the workers decided by a narrow majority to return to normal working hours and the campaign had disappeared by August. |
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| Physical Description: | Leaflet TEXT |