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Download or read book The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions written by Peter Dorey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Dorey examines the attitudes and policies of the Conservative Party towards the trade unions from the nineteenth century onwards. He links these to wider political and economic circumstances, and studies the key personalities involved. There has always been disagreement within the Conservative Party as to how it should deal with the trade unions. These disagreements have, in large part, reflected divisions within British Conservatism itself.