A History of British Trade Unionism
Author: Henry Pelling
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Published: 1967
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Author: Henry Pelling
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Published: 1967
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sidney Webb
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. Hamish Fraser
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780312218577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Pelling
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1349129682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe current debate about industrial relations cannot be understood without a knowledge of trade-union history. Dr Pelling's book, which has for several years been a standard work on the subject, has again been revised and updated to take account of recent research and to explain the course of events up to the Thatcher years, the miner's strike and the Employment Acts. The growth of white-collar unionism and the extension of women's rights are dealt with in the concluding chapters.
Author: Alastair J. Reid
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking 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.
Author: Chris Howell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-01-10
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1400826616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Keith Laybourn
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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: W. Hamish Fraser
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780312218577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malcolm Chase
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1351942298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce 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.
Author: W. Hamish Fraser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1999-06-21
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1349275581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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'.