[garinda]

Originally Posted by susie123

Sorry your timing's a bit out - the three day week was Jan to Mar 1974 (I missed it as I was working in the States). So mobertol is right it was the following year.

Also the Winter of Discontent was 1978-9 under Callaghan.

'It is eerily reminiscent of the 1973 energy crisis when rising oil prices pushed up inflation and sent the world into an economic tailspin. Britain was hit particularly hard at the time, suffering power cuts, rampant inflation and a three-day working week.'
BBC News | UK | Is this 1973 all over again?


1973 was winter of discontent
1973 was real winter of discontent | The Sun |Features


'The Three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom by the Conservative Government 1970–1974 to conserve electricity, the production of which was severely limited due to industrial action by coal miners. The effect was that from 1 January until 7 March 1974 commercial users of electricity would be limited to three specified consecutive days' consumption each week and prohibited from working longer hours on those days.'
Three-Day Week - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia