Pressure group case studies

Question 1

Insider environmental groups

Answer 1

RSPB and RSPCA

Question 2

Outsider environmental groups

Answer 2

Road protestors and Animal Liberation Front

Question 3

Example of an environmental group using Direct Action

Answer 3

Daniel Hooper dug himself into tunnels for anti-road protests

Question 4

What did the National Union of Miners do to the Conservative Government?

Answer 4

Paralysed it under Edward Heath

Question 5

What did the winter of discontent lead to?

Answer 5

(1978-9) led to the fall of James Callaghan’s Labour Government

Question 6

How was there a changing occupational structure?

Answer 6

Decline in heavy industry, which created more new working class

Question 7

What did the anti-union legislation in the 1980’s lead to?

Answer 7

The defeat of NUM in 1985 following a year-long strike. Which marked a watershed in union power

Question 8

What was the Labour Party reform?

Answer 8

OMOV (1993) took power away from the union block vote

Question 9

In 1997 why was progress for Unions slow?

Answer 9

Economy, labour market and unwillingness to reverseanti-union legislaion of the 1980’s

Question 10

In 2005 what fraction of private sector workers were union members?

Answer 10

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