Author: Henry PellingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railways and the Trade Unions
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
A History of British Trade Unionism
Author: Henry PellingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railways and the Trade Unions
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
A History of British Trade Unionism, 1700-1998
Author: W. Hamish FraserPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312218577
Category : Labor disputes
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The History of Trade Unionism
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher: London, New York, Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Trade Unions and the State
Author: Chris HowellPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400826616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of British trade unionism in the twentieth century. Most scholars regard Britain's industrial relations institutions as the product of a largely laissez faire system of labor relations, punctuated by occasional government interference. Howell, on the other hand, argues that the British state was the prime architect of three distinct systems of industrial relations established in the course of the twentieth century. The book contends that governments used a combination of administrative and judicial action, legislation, and a narrative of crisis to construct new forms of labor relations. Understanding the demise of the unions requires a reinterpretation of how these earlier systems were constructed, and the role of the British government in that process. Meticulously researched, Trade Unions and the State not only sheds new light on one of Thatcher's most significant achievements but also tells us a great deal about the role of the state in industrial relations.
United We Stand
Author: Alastair J. ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Looking both at individual workers and the organizations that represent them, Reid shows how unions have, throughout the modern era, been a crucial element in British life, and that all governments have had to develop policies to deal with them.
Early Trade Unionism
Author: Malcolm ChasePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351942298
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Once the heartland of British labour history, trade unionism has been marginalised in much recent scholarship. In a critical survey from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, this book argues for its reinstatement. Trade unionism is shown to be both intrinsically important and to provide a window onto the broader historical landscape; the evolution of trade union principles and practices is traced from the seventeenth century to mid-Victorian times. Underpinning this survey is an explanation of labour organisation that reaches back to the fourteenth century. Throughout, the emphasis is on trade union mentality and ideology, rather than on institutional history. There is a critical focus on the politics of gender, on the demarcation of skill and on the role of the state in labour issues. New insight is provided on the long-debated question of trade unions’ contribution to social and political unrest from the era of the French Revolution through to Chartism.
A History of British Trade Unionism, C. 1770-1990
Author: Keith LaybournPublisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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...'.
Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World
Author: Gary DanielsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415426634
Category : Endüstriyel ilişkiler- Büyük Britanya
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Written by very well-respected contributors, this comprehensive volume provides readers with an academic examination and comparison of the politics of industrial relations in the UK and Europe.
British Trade Union Posters
Author: Rodney MacePublisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
British Trade Unions, 1707–1918, Part I, Volume 1
Author: W Hamish FraserPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000420485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Drawing from a variety of libraries and archives, this collection brings together material to illustrate the history of the development of trade unionism and industrial relations. It spans the period from the early journeymen's trade societies as they emerged in the 18th-Century through to the end of the First World War. Part I Volume 1 looks at 1707-1800.