Author: Sheffield Trades and Labour Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Sidney Pollard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040239978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This volume focuses on labour history in Britain, but brings in comparative material on the Continent, in particular inter-war Germany. Special attention is given to wages and living and working conditions in the 19th century, to Robert Owen and Co-operation, and to the modern trade union movement and its attempts to keep up the interests of its members in the fluctuating conditions of the late 19th and earlier 20th centuries. The author defends the notion that wage-earners have common interests and frequently share common experiences, and that their organisations have both a strictly economic aspect (trade unions) and a wider political dimension. The profound changes which the labour organisations underwent in the 19th and 20th centuries are a major concern of these essays.

Author: Arthur Ivor Marsh
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754666837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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This is the final volume in the Historical Directory of Trade Unions series. It provides a comprehensive list of all British unions that operated within the building, construction, chemical, dock, maritime, engineering, government, mining, quarry, and shipbuilding industries.

Author: John B. Smethurst
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351930761
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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First Published in 2017. Volume 6 of the directory contains the Trade Unions of Building and Construction, Agriculture, Fishing, Chemicals, Wood and Woodworking, Transport, Engineering and Metal Working, Government, Civil and Public Service, Energy and Extraction in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Shipbuilding.

Author: Alan Clinton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006555
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Monograph on historical trends in the trade union movement in the UK during the period from 1900 to 1940 with particular reference to the role of trades councils - covers trade union structure, workers representation, working class organization, political participation, the role of the labour political party and national level trade union federation (tuc), social implications of labour disputes (incl. The general strike of 1926), etc., and includes statistical tables on the membership of trades councils. Bibliography pp. 239 to 254 and references.

Author: Dennis Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317218892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban industrial order was developing in complex interdependence with a declining rural agrarian order. The book follows the divergent paths of two cities - Birmingham and Sheffield – in their social development. These paths reflect the complex process of conflict and compromise as the ‘old’ order was gradually replaced by the ‘new’. It studies in detail many aspects of social life that were affected by these changes such as education, public administration, political structures, public administration, religion, the professions, popular culture and family. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and sociology.

Author: Carolyn Baylies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100088421X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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First published in 1993, The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 is concerned with the workers in the Yorkshire coal industry, their union, and the broader mining communities in which they lived from the formation of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association in 1881 through to the end of the First World War. The period covered is of considerable importance for the consolidation of the Yorkshire Miners Union, and indeed for the building of a national miners’ federation and an international miners’ organisation, in both of which the role of Yorkshire’s leadership was central. The decades straddling the turn of the century were characterised by volatility in the mining industry, which was reflected in a number of strikes. Carolyn Baylies traces these general processes and focuses, in detail, upon a number of episodes during which union struggles and community involvement coalesced. She explores the dynamic between district and local levels of the union, and the tensions that accompanied a progressive rationalization of bargaining machinery. This book will be of interest to students of history and sociology.

Author: Richard Price
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134529783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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First published in 2006. This study looks at a time when Victorian Britain was a time for self-doubt. There was an increasing fear that the 'place in the sun' that had so long been hers was being shadowed by the rising powers of Germany and the United States of America. Doubts arouse about her economic strength, her military prowess, even the viability of the two-party system. The South African War of 1899-1902 served for a time as the focus for all the fears that many Britons had about their country's future. The patriotism it engendered was exaggerated by the early military failures to resolve the problem of the troublesome Boers. The focus of the text is on working-class attitudes and reactions to the Boer War 1899-1902.

Author: Clyde Binfield
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Joyce M. Bellamy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134907845X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Includes radicals of the Chartist and earlier periods, trade unionists and other radicals after 1850. The book is especially concerned with 20th-century activists and intellectuals, notably those whose formative years or main political life was spent during the period between the two World Wars.