Widgery D
Int J Health Serv. 1976;6(2):301-8. doi: 10.2190/CNQB-449X-9YEK-7GGL.
This article outlines the origins of the main manual and white-collar trade unions in the British Health Service, traces their growth after the establishment of the National Health Service in 1949, and examines the wave of industrial action in British hospitals in the seventies. It is argued that although strike action inside hospitals in the early seventies was a novel tactic adopted as a last resort by manual workers pressing for wage increases, industrial action over a wide range of political and medical issues has now been taken by all types of hospital worker in Britain and plays a central part in the national debate over the future of the National Health Service.
本文概述了英国医疗服务体系中主要体力劳动者工会和白领工会的起源，追溯了它们在1949年国家医疗服务体系建立后的发展历程，并审视了20世纪70年代英国医院的罢工潮。文章认为，尽管70年代初医院内部的罢工行动是体力劳动者为争取加薪而采取的一种新颖且不得已的策略，但如今英国各类医院工作人员都在广泛的政治和医疗问题上采取了罢工行动，并且在关于国家医疗服务体系未来的全国性辩论中发挥着核心作用。
