# winter of discontent (strikes)

*Ordinarily means:* a period of widespread strikes and public dissatisfaction, after Britain's winter of 1978-79

A period in which many members of a collective self act together on grievance against the walls those who govern set, kept later in its narrative.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [grievance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-grievance.held), [narrative](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrative.self-story), [period](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-period.temporal), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [against](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-against.opposition), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [later](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-later.temporal)

**Through:** Grievances held separately become action together within one season; the narrative then keeps the season as a name for the reading it made of those who governed.

**Novel properties:**
- grievance acted on together within one bounded time
- a season kept as a verdict in memory

## Examples
- Britain's winter of 1978-79, marked by widespread public-sector strikes, is called the Winter of Discontent after the opening line of Shakespeare's Richard III. *(history)*

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