The Trade Union Act 2016 marks a historically significant realignment in the ideological politics of trade union regulation. It represents a more authoritarian style of Conservative ideology and statecraft in the sphere of trade union regulation, and this is reflected in three main characteristics: (i) a repressive strategy of de-democratisation, undermining political resistance and stifling dissent in the democratic process; (ii) heavier reliance on direct State coercion, including the techniques of criminalisation, alongside the empowerment of employers to use civil law remedies against trade unions and workers in industrial action situations; (iii) the elevation of social order in the regulation of strike activity. The article then considers the likely prospects of the legislation, and the wider ideological significance of this turn towards authoritarianism for Conservative political thought ‘beyond neo-liberalism’.

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超越新自由主义：2016 年工会法和威权国家

2016 年《工会法》标志着工会监管意识形态政治的历史性重大调整。它在工会监管领域代表了一种更加专制的保守主义意识形态和治国方略，这体现在三个主要特征上：(i) 去民主化的镇压策略，削弱政治抵抗和压制民主进程中的异议；(ii) 更加依赖直接的国家胁迫，包括刑事定罪的技术，同时授权雇主在劳工行动情况下对工会和工人使用民法补救措施；(iii) 罢工活动规范中社会秩序的提升。然后，文章考虑了立法的可能前景，