Author: Malcolm Chase
Publisher: 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.
Early Trade Unionism
Author: Malcolm Chase
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The History of Trade Unionism
Author: Sidney Webb
Publisher: London, New York, Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher: London, New York, Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
United We Stand
Author: Alastair J. Reid
Publisher:
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.
Publisher:
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.
Exploring Trade Union Identities
Author: Bob Smale
Publisher: Bristol University Press
ISBN: 1529204070
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The world of work has changed and so have trade unions with mergers, rebrandings and new unions being formed. The question is, how positioned are the unions to organize the unorganized? With more than three quarters of UK workers unrepresented and the growth of precarious employment and the gig economy this topical new book by Bob Smale reports up-to-date research on union identities and what he terms ‘niche unionism’, while raising critical questions for the future.
Publisher: Bristol University Press
ISBN: 1529204070
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The world of work has changed and so have trade unions with mergers, rebrandings and new unions being formed. The question is, how positioned are the unions to organize the unorganized? With more than three quarters of UK workers unrepresented and the growth of precarious employment and the gig economy this topical new book by Bob Smale reports up-to-date research on union identities and what he terms ‘niche unionism’, while raising critical questions for the future.
A History of British Trade Unionism
Author: Henry Pelling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railways and the Trade Unions
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railways and the Trade Unions
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Transformations of Trade Unionism
Author: Ad Knotter
Publisher: Work around the Globe: Historical Comparisons
ISBN: 9789463724715
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism.
Publisher: Work around the Globe: Historical Comparisons
ISBN: 9789463724715
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism.
Trade Unionism in the United States
Author: Robert Franklin Hoxie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Trade Union and Social History
Author: A.E. Musson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136614710
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
There is perhaps no area of British life where attitudes are more strongly influenced by shared traditions and past experiences than the trade union movement; the memory of the working-class movements is a long one. It is therefore all the more important in the light of recent events to examine the origins and development of trade-union organization over the decades if we are to understand the unions of today, which have emerged as one of the most crucial and strongest elements in the economy. This book is the product of twenty years’ detailed research and general reflection on the course of trade-union development, and ranges over the whole field of British trade-union history, from the early craft societies to the structure of modern trade unionism. It begins by illuminating the problems associated with researching and writing in this field, and goes on to trace the main trends of trade-union development, linking these with modern trade-union problems. Particular attention is paid to some of the important aspects of this history – the Owenite period, the so-called New Model unions, the origins of the Trades Union Congress, and more recent changes in trade-union organization. These themes are woven into a broad study which includes detailed investigation of individual trade unions (particularly the printing unions, and also an early employers association) with a general review of the whole movement. Trade-union history is closely bound up with social conditions, and Professor Musson also examines a number of such related aspects as the struggle for a free press, the origins of the co-operative movement and the early factory system. This classic book was first published in 1974.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136614710
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
There is perhaps no area of British life where attitudes are more strongly influenced by shared traditions and past experiences than the trade union movement; the memory of the working-class movements is a long one. It is therefore all the more important in the light of recent events to examine the origins and development of trade-union organization over the decades if we are to understand the unions of today, which have emerged as one of the most crucial and strongest elements in the economy. This book is the product of twenty years’ detailed research and general reflection on the course of trade-union development, and ranges over the whole field of British trade-union history, from the early craft societies to the structure of modern trade unionism. It begins by illuminating the problems associated with researching and writing in this field, and goes on to trace the main trends of trade-union development, linking these with modern trade-union problems. Particular attention is paid to some of the important aspects of this history – the Owenite period, the so-called New Model unions, the origins of the Trades Union Congress, and more recent changes in trade-union organization. These themes are woven into a broad study which includes detailed investigation of individual trade unions (particularly the printing unions, and also an early employers association) with a general review of the whole movement. Trade-union history is closely bound up with social conditions, and Professor Musson also examines a number of such related aspects as the struggle for a free press, the origins of the co-operative movement and the early factory system. This classic book was first published in 1974.
Theories of Trade Unionism
Author: Michael Poole
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000319946
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
First published in 1981, Theories of Trade Unionism traces the development of trade union theory from its nineteenth-century foundations to the more advanced conceptual models present at the time of original publication. The book surveys the main tributaries of modern approaches – the moral and ethical, the revolutionary, the defensive or conservative, and the economic and political – and analyses the work of contemporary industrial relations scholars. This includes the main types and varieties of systems theory, the disparate pluralist approaches and the ‘radical school’. The book identifies links between the differing premises of the various schools of thought, and combines the main perspectives in a higher analytical and conceptual unity. It concludes with a discussion of a number of avenues for theoretical and conceptual progress. Theories of Trade Unionism is ideal for those with an interest in the history of trade union theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000319946
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
First published in 1981, Theories of Trade Unionism traces the development of trade union theory from its nineteenth-century foundations to the more advanced conceptual models present at the time of original publication. The book surveys the main tributaries of modern approaches – the moral and ethical, the revolutionary, the defensive or conservative, and the economic and political – and analyses the work of contemporary industrial relations scholars. This includes the main types and varieties of systems theory, the disparate pluralist approaches and the ‘radical school’. The book identifies links between the differing premises of the various schools of thought, and combines the main perspectives in a higher analytical and conceptual unity. It concludes with a discussion of a number of avenues for theoretical and conceptual progress. Theories of Trade Unionism is ideal for those with an interest in the history of trade union theory.
Women Workers and the Trade Unions
Author: Sarah Boston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description