Tom Jackson and Moss Evans respond to Chancellor Geoffrey Howe’s first Budget

Title

Tom Jackson and Moss Evans respond to Chancellor Geoffrey Howe’s first Budget

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:03:54

Description

Report on trade union reaction to Chacellor Geoffrey Howe’s first Budget. With comment from TUC Chairman, Tom Jackson arguing it will cause rising unemployment, and trade unions will be seeking pay rises at least in line with the rise in the Retail Price Index; TGWU union leader, Moss Evans also confirming rising prices will influence pay claims. Evans’s illustrations of family life are highly gendered, e.g. the male breadwinner and the female housekeeper/shopper asking her husband for housekeeping money. Vivian White reports.

Contributors

Moss Evans; Vivian White; Tom Jackson

Keywords

Budgets; Trade unions; Government; TGWU; Wages; Prices; TUC; Conservative Party; Women; Geoffrey Howe; National budgets; Gender roles; Gender division of labour; Gender stereotypes; Married women; Men; Married men

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