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Sep 24, 2024 · Rupert Murdoch’s Wapping dispute shaped media in the UK. New research looks at what happened on the frontline. Lecturers Sam Kemp and Amil Mohanan researched Murdoch’s 1980s battle with the printing unions by interviewing those who picketed and digging through newspapers run by those striking. by Patrick Daly.
The Wapping dispute was a lengthy failed strike by print workers in London in 1986. Print unions tried to block distribution of The Sunday Times, along with other newspapers in Rupert Murdoch 's News International group, after production was shifted to a new plant in Wapping in January 1986.
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Wapping (/ ˈ w ɒ p ɪ ŋ /) is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. Wapping is on the north bank of the River Thames between St Katharine Docks to the west, and Shadwell to the east. This position gives the district a strong maritime character.
Revelations of industrial-scale phone hacking at the News of the World and corruption of the police and national politics have exposed the malign influence and power of a global media empire. The decades-long accumulation of power came dramatically to a head with the year-long dispute.
The Wapping Dispute raises difficult questions about the defeat of the workers movement, the imbrication of gender and class composition, the failure of the unions, the urgency of community self-defense in the face of violent policing and the entwinement class struggle and print culture.
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Oct 10, 2014 · London’s Wapping: from docks and Dickens to piazzas and penthouses. Buyers are increasingly drawn to the district, thanks to its colourful history and warehouse conversions. By Nathan Brooker.
