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The great Labour unrest

Author : Lewis Mates
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784998036
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The great Labour unrest written by Lewis Mates and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union. Drawing widely on a vast and rich body of primary sources, this study reveals the debates that grassroots activists had during the fascinating and turbulent 'Great Labour Unrest' period. It charts the contexts in which the socialists challenged the union's Liberal leaders from the late 1890s and considers the complex strikes in 1910 against the implementation of the Liberal government's miners' eight-hour day. It analyses the emergence and development of a mass rank-and-file movement in the coalfield based around demands for a miners' minimum wage and, when this principle was won in March 1912, for an improved minimum wage. This book is of interest to academics, advanced students and lay people interested in political, social and economic history, political thought, economics, and industrial relations.

Trade Unions in China

Author : Tim Pringle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136826572
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Trade Unions in China written by Tim Pringle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions, and demonstrates that labour unrest is the principal driving force behind trade union reform in China.

The Last Great Strike

Author : Ahmed White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520285611
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Strike written by Ahmed White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as “Little Steel.” The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. For two months a grinding struggle unfolded, punctuated by bloody clashes in which police, company agents, and National Guardsmen ruthlessly beat and shot unionists. At least sixteen died and hundreds more were injured before the strike ended in failure. The violence and brutality of the Little Steel Strike became legendary. In many ways it was the last great strike in modern America. Traditionally the Little Steel Strike has been understood as a modest setback for steel workers, one that actually confirmed the potency of New Deal reforms and did little to impede the progress of the labor movement. However, The Last Great Strike tells a different story about the conflict and its significance for unions and labor rights. More than any other strike, it laid bare the contradictions of the industrial labor movement, the resilience of corporate power, and the limits of New Deal liberalism at a crucial time in American history.

The Great Labour Unrest

Author : Lewis H. Mates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719090684
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Great Labour Unrest written by Lewis H. Mates and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the battle for ideological and actual control of the Durham Miners' Association between Liberals, socialists and syndicalists in the tumultuous period prior to the First World War.

Strike Action and Nation Building

Author : David De Vries
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388109
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Strike Action and Nation Building written by David De Vries and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increasing precariousness of employment. While the impact of strikes was not always immense, they are deeply rooted in Israel's past during the Ottoman Empire and Mandate Palestine. Workers persist in using them for material improvement and to gain power in both the private and public sectors, reproducing a vibrant social practice whose codes have withstood the test of time. This book unravels the trajectory of the strikes as a rich source for the social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and highly politicized history.

Forces of Labor

Author : Beverly J. Silver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521520775
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Forces of Labor written by Beverly J. Silver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

BRISTOL AND THE LABOUR UNREST OF 1910-14

Author : MIKE. RICHARDSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911522287
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book BRISTOL AND THE LABOUR UNREST OF 1910-14 written by MIKE. RICHARDSON and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India

Author : Jörg Nowak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303005375X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India written by Jörg Nowak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014. Based on four case studies, the author traces the alliances and relations that strikers developed during their mobilisations with other popular actors such as students, indigenous peoples, and people displaced by dam projects. The study locates the mass strikes in Brazil’s construction industry and India’s automobile industry in a global conjuncture of protest movements, and develops a new theory of strikes that can take account of the manifold ways in which labour unrest is embedded in local communities and regional networks. “Jörg Nowak has written an ambitious, wide-ranging and very important book. Based on extensive empirical research in Brazil and India and a thorough analysis of the secondary literature, Nowak reveals that numerous labour conflicts develop in the absence of trade unions, but with the support of kinship networks, local communities, social movements and other types of associations. This impressive work may well become a major building block for a new interpretation of global workers’ struggles.” —Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands “Nowak’s book meticulously details the trajectory of strikes and its resultant new forms of organisations in India and Brazil. The central focus of this analytically rich and thought provoking book is to search for a new political alternative model of organising workers. A very good deed indeed!” —Nandita Mondal, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India “Jörg Nowak analyses with critical sense forms of popular organization that often remain invisible. It is an indispensable book for all those who are looking for more effective analytical resources to better understand the present situation and the future promises of the workers’ movements.” —Roberto Véras de Oliveira, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil “In this timely and important study, Nowak convincingly challenges the dominant Eurocentric approach to labour conflict and calls for a new theory of strikes. He stresses the need to engage in a wider perspective that includes social reproduction, neighbourhood mobilisations, and the specific traditions of struggles in the Global South.” —Edward Webster, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960

Author : Gail Saunders
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063310
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960 written by Gail Saunders and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saunders resoundingly affirms the relevance of island history. Scholars will appreciate the detail and insights."--Choice "Deftly unravels the complex historical interrelationships of race, color, class, economics, and environment in the Colonial Bahamas. An invaluable study for scholars who conduct comparative research on the British Caribbean."--Rosalyn Howard, author of Black Seminoles in the Bahamas "Saunders is to be commended for a scholarly study that prominently features the non-white majority in the Bahamas--a group which usually has been overlooked."--Whittington B. Johnson, author of Post-Emancipation Race Relations in The Bahamas In this one-of-a-kind study of race and class in the Bahamas, Gail Saunders shows how racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across other British West Indian colonies but instead mirrored the inflexible color line of the United States. Proximity to the U.S. and geographic isolation from other British colonies created a uniquely Bahamian interaction among racial groups. Focusing on the post-emancipation period from the 1880s to the 1960s, Saunders considers the entrenched, though extra-legal, segregation prevalent in most spheres of life that lasted well into the 1950s. Saunders traces early black nationalist and pan-Africanism movements, as well as the influence of Garveyism and Prohibition during World War I. She examines the economic depression of the 1930s and the subsequent boom in the tourism industry, which boosted the economy but worsened racial tensions: proponents of integration predicted disaster if white tourists ceased traveling to the islands. Despite some upward mobility of mixed-race and black Bahamians, the economy continued to be dominated by the white elite, and trade unions and labor-based parties came late to the Bahamas. Secondary education, although limited to those who could afford it, was the route to a better life for nonwhite Bahamians and led to mixed-race and black persons studying in professional fields, which ultimately brought about a rising political consciousness. Training her lens on the nature of relationships among the various racial and social groups in the Bahamas, Saunders tells the story of how discrimination persisted until at last squarely challenged by the majority of Bahamians.

The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925

Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802080820
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925 written by Craig Heron and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, concise portrait of one of the most dramatic moments in the history of working-class life and class relations generally in Canada - the upsurge of working-class protest at the end of the First World War.

The General Strike of 1842

Author : Mick Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The General Strike of 1842 written by Mick Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death in the Haymarket

Author : James Green
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400033225
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in the Haymarket written by James Green and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic twenty-year struggle for the eight-hour workday. Blending a gripping narrative, outsized characters and a panoramic portrait of a major social movement, Death in the Haymarket is an important addition to the history of American capitalism and a moving story about the class tensions at the heart of Gilded Age America.

Killing for Coal

Author : Thomas G. Andrews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674736680
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Killing for Coal written by Thomas G. Andrews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.

Rebel Youth

Author : Ian Milligan
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774826894
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Rebel Youth written by Ian Milligan and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Against the Law

Author : Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520250974
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Against the Law written by Ching Kwan Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The 1926 Miners' Lockout

Author : Hester Barron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199575045
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The 1926 Miners' Lockout written by Hester Barron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities.

Citizen

Author : Louise W. Knight
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226447014
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Citizen written by Louise W. Knight and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of her age, most notably the ever-changing meanings of democracy. Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899. Knight recounts how Addams, a child of a wealthy family in rural northern Illinois, longed for a life of larger purpose. She broadened her horizons through education, reading, and travel, and, after receiving an inheritance upon her father's death, moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house. Citizen shows vividly what the settlement house actually was—a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings—and describes how Addams learned of the abject working conditions in American factories, the unchecked power wielded by employers, the impact of corrupt local politics on city services, and the intolerable limits placed on women by their lack of voting rights. These experiences, Knight makes clear, transformed Addams. Always a believer in democracy as an abstraction, Addams came to understand that this national ideal was also a life philosophy and a mandate for civic activism by all. As her story unfolds, Knight astutely captures the enigmatic Addams's compassionate personality as well as her flawed human side. Written in a strong narrative voice, Citizen is an insightful portrait of the formative years of a great American leader. “Knight’s decision to focus on Addams’s early years is a stroke of genius. We know a great deal about Jane Addams the public figure. We know relatively little about how she made the transition from the 19th century to the 20th. In Knight’s book, Jane Addams comes to life. . . . Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenure; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve. Jane Addams would have understood.”—Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review “My only complaint about the book is that there wasn’t more of it. . . . Knight honors Addams as an American original.”—Kathleen Dalton, Chicago Tribune