Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Tremors of Discontent: My Life in Print 1970-1988
Nuanced and frank narrative of dedicated union activist
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SOME on the left will have locked in their memory actions and moments which became vital to their political awakening and growth in consciousness, which Mike Richardson’s autobiographical account Tremors of Discontent calls to mind.
Powerfully stark and honest, he recounts and assesses his experiences in the 1970s and 1980s while an active print worker and SOGAT trade unionist in a Bristol printworks.
Richardson recounts his post-war boyhood as the son of working-class parents on Lockleaze council estate in Bristol’s northern suburbs, his secondary-modern schooldays and his first permanent job in a works producing printed packaging.
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