British Trade Unionism To Day

Author : G. D. H. Cole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429811225
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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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 590 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 : George Douglas Howard Cole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Trade Unionism To-day written by George Douglas Howard Cole and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1939 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clive Jenkins
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483147118
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Trade Unions Today written by Clive Jenkins and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Trade Unions Today is concerned with the trade union movement in Britain, how it operates, and how it strives constantly to achieve its objectives. This text examines why the British people hold trade union membership cards, why they do it, how they do it, what they expect from their unions, and how the trade union movement affects the citizens of Britain. This book consists of nine chapters and begins by discussing the history of trade unions in Britain, with emphasis on how various forms of organization came about and how they are now. The next chapter focuses on the legal battles faced by British unions to fight for their right of formal existence and compares the legal framework for industrial relations in the United Kingdom with that in the United States. The reader is then introduced to the societal goals of trade unions and what they have achieved so far, particularly with respect to improving wages and employment conditions. The chapters that follow consider the rationale for the unions' establishment of a national center, the election and selection of union officers, and union communications and publicity. This book also examines how trade unions conduct collective bargaining, along with their finances, and concludes by assessing the future of the unions in the context of the social environment in which they operate. This reference material will be useful to trade union leaders and members as well as companies and policymakers who deal with unions.

Author : Keith Laybourn
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of British Trade Unionism, C. 1770-1990 written by Keith Laybourn and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From small and largely ineffectual beginnings the British trade union movement gradually emerged into a force to be reckoned with--a powerful organization that, at its peak, could make or break the operation of British politics and industrial relations. A History of British Trade Unionism sets out to describe, discuss and, furthermore, evaluate the major developments in the evolution of the trade union movement and provides an essential and up-to-date summary of the chief debates that have long divided historians. It focuses upon both the institutional nature of trade union growth and the more rank-and-file shopfloor experience which has been the subject of discussion in recent years. In this fascinating book Keith Laybourn examines the problems of trade union growth in the early nineteenth century, the emergence of the so-called 'new model' and 'new unionism' of the late nineteenth century, the link with the Labour Party, the shop stewards' movement since the First World War, inter-war developments including the General Strike in 1926, the success of British trade unionism between the Second World War and the late 1960s and, finally, the more recent decline of British trade unionism particularly in the face of restrictions imposed by the Thatcher governments. A History of British Trade Unionism gives a full and discerning account of the trade union movement from 1770 to the present day and clears an invaluable 'pathway through the forest of detailed research...to enable the general, rather than specialist, reader to appreciate the major debates which have convulsed the study of British trade union history...'.

Author : Chris Wrigley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719041471
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Trade Unions, 1945-1995 written by Chris Wrigley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema. Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror', science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Erice's The Spirit of The Beehive, del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Mañas's El Bola and the Marisol films. The book also draws on a century of filmmaking in Spain and intersects with recent revelations concerning the horrors of the Spanish past. The child is a potent motif for the loss of historical memory and for its recuperation through cinema. This book is suitable for scholars and undergraduates working in the areas of Spanish cinema, Spanish cultural studies and cinema studies.

Author : W. Hamish Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780312218577
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of British Trade Unionism, 1700-1998 written by W. Hamish Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Wrigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576406
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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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 : Rob Sewell
Publisher : Wellred Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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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 : David Marsh
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875467047
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Politics of British Trade Unionism written by David Marsh and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the politics of trade unionism in contemporary Britain, assessing the major changes in legislation, policing and attitudes since 1979 as well as the broader social and economic trends to which these have been a response.

Author : W. Hamish Fraser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349275581
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of British Trade Unionism 1700–1998 written by W. Hamish Fraser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest documented attempts at collective action by working people in the eighteenth century through to the very different world of `New Unionism' and `New Labour'.