Three-Day Week

When

1974

Kind

Strike

Coordinates

54.60° N, 2.00° W

Description

a measure introduced in the United Kingdom to conserve electricity during a miners strike

Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.

1973–74 UK electricity conservation measure

The Three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom from 1973 to 1974 by Edward Heath's Conservative government to conserve electricity, the generation of which was severely restricted owing to industrial action by coal miners and railway workers.

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Coal shortages caused by industrial action result in the implementation of the Three-Day Week electricity consumption reduction measure”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “fin de la grève des mineurs du charbon au Royaume-Uni”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page