71.   But it no longer seemed possible to capture the imagination of a wide section of the Labour movement.

72.   The Peace Alliance had, as a result, attracted support from a variety of national figures, but had not been so successful in the organized Labour movement.

73.   The strength and traditions of the British labour movement are the other key factors.

74.   The Italian labour movement suffered enormous defeats in the late forties and the trade unions remained ineffective throughout the fifties.

75.   Finally, the structure and traditions of the French labour movement were important.

76.   For example, the way in which the labour movement relates to political parties and the state has been seen as a function of when industrialization occurs.

77.   The national agreements also granted important concessions to the labour movement.

78.   In Italy, too, the interests of sections of the labour movement, in alliance with factions in the Christian Democrats, were a force behind post-war nationalizations.

79.   Nonetheless, nationalization still bore the mark of long struggles by the labour movement to further working class interests.

80.   The BR unions share the relative ideological homogeneity of the British labour movement as a whole.