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Author : Gerald Allen Dorfman
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817978136
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (781 download)
Download or read book British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress written by Gerald Allen Dorfman and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emmanuelle Avril
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526126346
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present written by Emmanuelle Avril and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to renew and expand the field of British labour studies, setting out new avenues for research so as to widen the audience and academic interest in the field, in a context which makes the revisiting of past struggles and dilemmas more pressing than ever.
Author : Melanie Simms
Publisher : ILR Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801478130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Union Voices written by Melanie Simms and published by ILR Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain's New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery present a multilevel analysis of what organizing means in the UK, how it emerged, and what its impact has been. Although the supportive legislation of the New Labour government led to considerable optimism in the late 1990s about the prospects for renewal, Simms, Holgate, and Heery argue that despite considerable evidence of investment, new practices, and innovation, UK unions have largely failed to see any significant change in their membership and influence. The authors argue that this is because of the wider context within which organizing activity takes place and also reflects the fundamental tensions within these initiatives. Even without evidence of any significant growth in labor influence across UK society more broadly, organizing campaigns have given many of the participants an opportunity to grow and flourish. The book presents their experiences and uses them to show how their personal commitment to organizing and trade unionism can sometimes be undermined by the tensions and tactics used during campaigns.
Author : Chris Wrigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576406
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (764 download)
Download or read book British Trade Unions Since 1933 written by Chris Wrigley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of British trade unions between 1933 and 2000, covering key issues and controversies.
Author : Derek H. Aldcroft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878352
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870–2000 written by Derek H. Aldcroft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do unions do and why do they do it? Do they seek to maximise profit for their members, or to obtain better working conditions that benefit society as a whole? Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver here provide one of the first sustained studies of the effects of union activities in terms of economic performance and the impact on the business world. From the rise of the British mass trade union movement in the 1870s to the present day, the book examines the main trends in union development and structure, and the core strategies unions have used to achieve their objectives: the use of strikes, work rules and restrictive practices; workers’ attitudes to innovation; the wage bargaining process. Important assessments are made of the influence of these strategies on investment, innovation, economic growth, and the cost of structure and competitiveness of the UK economy.
Author : Jim Moher
Publisher : Jgm Books
ISBN 13 : 9780955710728
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Walter Citrine written by Jim Moher and published by Jgm Books. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This fascinating biography sets the record straight on a giant of the Labour movement... and contains many lessons for us today.' - Frances O' Grady, TUC General Secretary 'Like many trade unionists, Walter Citrine was crucial to my education. A major political figure of the 20th century, Citrine deserves the great biography that Jim Moher has given him.' - Alan Johnson, former Home Secretary and union leader The forgotten story of a Liverpool lad who rose from the squalor of Edwardian Merseyside's bustling docks to become the confidant of Churchill and Roosevelt as leader of Britain's trade unions during the Second World War. Walter Citrine's life spanned the late-nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries. During his leadership of the Trades Union Congress, the unions progressed from impotent grandstanding to effective lobbying, influencing governments and employers to transform deplorable working conditions and elevate the worker's place in society. Through Citrine's life, readers will revisit the key historical episodes in which his work was so influential - the General Strike of 1926, the 'Great Depression' of 1928-34, the rise of Hitler and Fascism, the challenge of Stalin and Communism, the Second World War and the reconstruction afterwards. At a time when trade unions are once again being consulted by governments on their plans to revive the economy, never has Citrine's story been so relevant.
Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837641366
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain written by Tom Buchanan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between Britain and the Spanish Civil War. This book explains the war's legacy and longer-term impact on Britain, and presents a chronological progression from the Civil War to the post-war Franco era. It also provides a discussion of the importance of loss and memory.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264308814
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Good Jobs for All in a Changing World of Work The OECD Jobs Strategy written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The labour markets of OECD and emerging economies are undergoing major transformations. The widespread slow-down in productivity and wage growth and high levels of income inequality in many countries are coupled with structural changes linked to the digital revolution, globalisation and ...
Author : John Mcllroy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429842961
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics written by John Mcllroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain. Detailing the transition of individuals who had survived in the war or had taken part in the war effort to going back a civilian life in 1945. Following the rise of the Labour party in Britain until 1964.
Author : Leslie A. Clarkson
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book British Trade Union and Labour History written by Leslie A. Clarkson and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economic History Society commissioned this series which aims to provide a guide to current interpretations of the key themes of economic and social history in which advances have been made or in which there has been significant debate. The books are intended to be a springboard to futher reading rather than a set of pre-packaged conclusions.
Author : Rodney Mace
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book British Trade Union Posters written by Rodney Mace and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poster art is one of the most powerful means of communication and the examples collected in this book speak eloquently of the battle for fair wages, decent conditions and social justice that has characterised British trade unions.
Author : G. D. H. Cole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429811225
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book British Trade Unionism To-Day written by G. D. H. Cole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939. This book provides a balanced picture of Trade Unionism as it was in the 1930s, both in general and in each of the principal industries and services. The study opens with a brief outline of Trade Union history, before examining Trade Unions in various industries, including mining, transport, and the postal service. British Trade Unionism To-Day will be of great interest to students and scholars of labour and political history.
Author : Len McCluskey
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788737881
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Why You Should be a Trade Unionist written by Len McCluskey and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union. Drawing on anecdotes from his own long involvement in unions, he looks at the history of trade unions, what they do and how they give a voice to working people, as democratic organisations. He considers the changing world of work, the challenges and opportunities of automation and why being trade unionists can enable us to help shape the future. He sets out why being a trade unionist is as much a political role as it is an industrial one and why the historic links between the labour movement and the Labour Party matter. Ultimately, McCluskey explains how being a trade unionist means putting equality at work and in society front and centre, fighting for an end to discrimination, and to inequality in wages and power.
Author : Andrew Adonis
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785906135
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Ernest Bevin written by Andrew Adonis and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statesman, pre-eminent leader and founder of the free world's then largest and most formidable trade union, Ernest Bevin was one of the most rousing figures of the twentieth century. Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition during the Second World War, he was Churchill's right-hand man, masterminding the home front while the war supremo commanded the battle front. Afterwards, he was Foreign Secretary at one of the most critical moments in international history, responsible for keeping Stalin and communism out of Western Europe, and for creating West Germany, NATO and the transatlantic alliance, all of which underpin European democracy and security to this day. An orphan farm boy from Bristol, Bevin's astonishing rise to fame and power is unmatched by any leader to this day. In this discerning and wide-ranging biography, Andrew Adonis examines how 'the working-class John Bull' grew to a position of such authority, and offers a critical reassessment of his life and influence. Finally exploring Bevin's powerful legacy and lessons for our own age, Adonis restores this charismatic statesman to his rightful place among the pantheon of Britain's greatest political leaders.
Author : Rob Sewell
Publisher : Wellred Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book In the Cause of Labour – A History of British Trade Unionism written by Rob Sewell and published by Wellred Books. This book was released on with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many narrative histories of the struggles of British workers. However, Rob Sewell's book is different. This book is aimed especially at class-conscious workers who are seeking to escape from the ills of the capitalist system, that has embroiled the world in a quagmire of wars, poverty and suffering. This history of trade unions is particularly relevant at the present time. After a long period of stagnation, the fresh winds of the class struggle are beginning to blow. Rob Sewell's book was written precisely with these new forces in mind. The British labour movement is the oldest in the world. More than two hundred years ago, the pioneers of the movement created illegal revolutionary trade unions in the face of the most terrible violence and repression. In the course of the nineteenth century they built trade unions of the downtrodden unskilled workers - those with "blistered hands and the unshorn chins," as Feargus O'Connor called them. Finally, they established a mass party of Labour based on the trade unions, breaking the monopoly of the Tories and Liberals. In the stormy years following the Russian Revolution they engaged in ferocious class battles, culminating in the General Strike of 1926. Nor did the achievements of the British trade union movement cease with the Depression and the Second World War. The post-war upswing served to strengthen the working class and heal the scars of the inter-war period. By the time of the industrial tidal wave of the early 1970s, they drove a Tory government from power, after turning Edward Heath's anti-trade union laws into a dead letter. Later, the miners, the traditional vanguard of the British working class, waged an epic year-long struggle in 1984-85 against the juggernaut of Thatcherism. They could have succeeded, had the rightwing Labour and trade union leaders not abandoned them and left them isolated. The book contains vital lessons and is essential reading for today's worker militants.
Author : Alice Prochaska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032394824
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (948 download)
Download or read book History General Federation Trade Unions, 1899-1980 written by Alice Prochaska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was originally published in 1982 the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) was an organisation which catered for some 40 unions with an aggregate membership of 490,000. The GFTU in the late 20th Century was a very different organisation from what its founders in 1899 hope it might become, but in both its early and later form, it holds a significant place in the history of British trade unionism. Its history, outlined in this book sheds much light on the history of labour relations and working-class organisation in this country as a whole. The book provides a framework within which the GFTU's contribution to the history of British labour in the 20th Century may be understood.
Author : Lewis Minkin
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Contentious Alliance written by Lewis Minkin and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minkin, regarded as Britain's foremost authority on Labour Party politics, marshalls a great deal of new primary material to present a comprehensive assessment of one of the most significant yet stormy alliances in British political life. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
