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Author: Jim Moher Publisher: Jgm Books ISBN: 9780955710728 Category : Languages : en Pages : 402
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'This fascinating biography sets the record straight on a giant of the Labour movement... and contains many lessons for us today.' - Frances O' Grady, TUC General Secretary 'Like many trade unionists, Walter Citrine was crucial to my education. A major political figure of the 20th century, Citrine deserves the great biography that Jim Moher has given him.' - Alan Johnson, former Home Secretary and union leader The forgotten story of a Liverpool lad who rose from the squalor of Edwardian Merseyside's bustling docks to become the confidant of Churchill and Roosevelt as leader of Britain's trade unions during the Second World War. Walter Citrine's life spanned the late-nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries. During his leadership of the Trades Union Congress, the unions progressed from impotent grandstanding to effective lobbying, influencing governments and employers to transform deplorable working conditions and elevate the worker's place in society. Through Citrine's life, readers will revisit the key historical episodes in which his work was so influential - the General Strike of 1926, the 'Great Depression' of 1928-34, the rise of Hitler and Fascism, the challenge of Stalin and Communism, the Second World War and the reconstruction afterwards. At a time when trade unions are once again being consulted by governments on their plans to revive the economy, never has Citrine's story been so relevant.
Author: Reiner Tosstorff Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004325573 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 936
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The 'Red International of Labour Unions' (RILU, Russian abbreviation Profintern) was a central instrument for the spreading of international communism during the inter-war period. This comprehensive and scholarly history of the organisation, based on extensive research in the former communist archives in Moscow and East Berlin, sheds significant light on the international trade union movement of the period. Tosstorff shows how the RILU began as a revolutionary alliance of syndicalists and communists in defiance of the social democratic International Federation of Trade Unions. His text presents a full account of the organisation’s main stages: the decline of the revolutionary wave after World War One, after which many syndicalists left, and others were integrated into the communist parties; the continuation of the RILU as an international communist apparatus; and its dissolution in 1936–7 as part of communism's popular front policy. First published in German as Profintern: Die Rote Gewerkschaftsinternationale 1920-1937 by Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn, in 2004.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264308814 Category : Languages : en Pages : 396
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The labour markets of OECD and emerging economies are undergoing major transformations. The widespread slow-down in productivity and wage growth and high levels of income inequality in many countries are coupled with structural changes linked to the digital revolution, globalisation and ...
Author: Rodney Mace Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 192
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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.
Author: Walter Crane Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781072677673 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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This is a reproduction of the Twentieth Century Press publication to mark the International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress, 1896. In addition to an illustrated title-page there are 12 cartoons produced by Walter Crane for socialist periodicals, such as Clarion, Commonweal, Justice and Labour Leader. The edition also included verses he penned to accompany cartoons on The Paris Commune, May Day, Christmas and the Donkey and the Common.
Author: Jim Moher
Author: Eve Livingston
Author: Trades Union Congress
Author: Reiner Tosstorff
Author: OECD
Author: United States. Congress
Author: Louis Stark
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Author: Rodney Mace
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Author: Walter Crane