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'If anyone still doubts that 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire because successive governments deliberately took away safety measures in the name of profit, this lucid, luminously written book will put them straight' Francis Beckett, journalist and contemporary historian
'A searing indictment of the death and destruction neoliberalism has wreaked' Gregor Gall, Visiting Professor, University of Leeds
'Frames the frantic moments of heroism and exhaustion of that night within a calm, detailed account of the FBU's fire safety advocacy over decades' Daniel Blackburn, Director, International Centre for Trade Union Rights
In June 2017, a fire broke out in the 25-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in West London. 72 people died in what was the worst residential fire in Britain since World War II. Culpable is a searing indictment of the government's role in this tragedy. For nearly four decades, the ministers responsible for public safety systematically dismantled regulations through privatisation and deregulation, enabling the contractors who made Grenfell Tower a ticking time-bomb.
Despite warnings from professionals (including the Fire Brigades Union), politicians from successive governments imposed deregulation in the name of the market and in favour of private profiteers. Meticulously researched, and drawing on the extensive findings of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, Culpable sets the record straight and challenges readers to consider the fundamental issues of power and violence that remain unresolved in the aftermath of Grenfell.
Paul Hampton is Head of Research and Policy at the Fire Brigades Union. He is the author of numerous FBU and other labour movement publications, and has been a trade unionist for 40 years.
Steve Wright is General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union.
'A searing indictment of the death and destruction neoliberalism has wreaked' Gregor Gall, Visiting Professor, University of Leeds
'Frames the frantic moments of heroism and exhaustion of that night within a calm, detailed account of the FBU's fire safety advocacy over decades' Daniel Blackburn, Director, International Centre for Trade Union Rights
In June 2017, a fire broke out in the 25-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in West London. 72 people died in what was the worst residential fire in Britain since World War II. Culpable is a searing indictment of the government's role in this tragedy. For nearly four decades, the ministers responsible for public safety systematically dismantled regulations through privatisation and deregulation, enabling the contractors who made Grenfell Tower a ticking time-bomb.
Despite warnings from professionals (including the Fire Brigades Union), politicians from successive governments imposed deregulation in the name of the market and in favour of private profiteers. Meticulously researched, and drawing on the extensive findings of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, Culpable sets the record straight and challenges readers to consider the fundamental issues of power and violence that remain unresolved in the aftermath of Grenfell.
Paul Hampton is Head of Research and Policy at the Fire Brigades Union. He is the author of numerous FBU and other labour movement publications, and has been a trade unionist for 40 years.
Steve Wright is General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union.
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"'This book should be read right across the trade union movement, particularly by those at the top of the organisation. It shows exactly what a trade union should do. From representing its members, to warning ministers before something goes wrong and then campaigning alongside the public when it does go wrong. The FBU took Grenfell into the labour movement and worked with the community to fight fo
Tony Kearns, Senior Deputy General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union
"'It should come as no surprise that it is Paul Hampton and the FBU that have produced this monumental study. They are to be heartily commended for doing so. Culpable is a searing indictment of the death and destruction neo-liberalism has wreaked and which the FBU has long stood against'"
Gregor Gall, Visiting Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Leeds
"'In this harrowing chronicle of the Grenfell fire, Hampton frames the frantic moments of heroism and exhaustion of that night within a calm, detailed account of the FBU's fire safety advocacy over the decades leading up to that tragic event. For all the FBU's clear-sighted insistence that deregulation in public services threatened public safety, Hampton shows how this advice was - and has continu
Daniel Blackburn, Director of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights