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Because of its centrality to all other industries, combined with its high levels of capital-intensity in its production and distribution networks which hinder market entry for competitors, the industrial gases industry which produces gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, and acetylene is of central importance to the industrial economy. The same characteristics make it simultaneously highly vulnerable to disruption. This article considers the causes, course, and consequences of industrial action at British Oxygen Company (BOC) in 1977, followed by threats of industrial action in the following two years. The company′s actions are considered in the context of the political and economic climate of the period.

No steel, no TV, and no burgers: How industrial action in a single company threatened to bring British economy to a standstill