Radical Aristocrats
Author: Ken Fuller
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 264
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Author: Ken Fuller
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Published: 1985
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ken Fuller
Publisher: Ishi Press
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9784871876759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadical Aristocrats was first published in 1985 the London Bus Section of the Transport & General Workers' Union (TGWU) was facing its most challenging period for decades, perhaps ever. Much has happened in the last quarter of a century.The Greater London Council (GLC) was abolished in 1986, and London Regional Transport (LRT) thereafter reported directly to the Department of Transport. Former GLC leader Ken Livingstone moved across the Thames to the House of Commons, where he sat as a Labour MP. However, due to the fact that the GLC had been able to introduce a variant of the low-fares policy declared unlawful by the Law Lords, bus patronage in London went on increasing year after year, while in the rest of the country it declined. For London's busworkers, however, the news was not so good. Gradually, the routes operated by LRT subsidiary London Buses Ltd. (LBL) were put out to tender. Inevitably, the early tendered routes were lost to private operators, as LBL's bids were based on current wages and conditions. LBL therefore decided that in future it would bid on lower wages and worse conditions, without consulting the TGWU beforehand. This tactic was first employed at Potters Bar garage, and when LBL succeeded in retaining the routes by this method, the existing workforce was offered a severance package which, being relatively generous, meant that the employer was able to avoid strike action. The union then faced the task of recruiting the replacement staff and integrating them into the London Bus Section.
Author: Jerry White
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-11-10
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 1407013076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
Author: John Mcllroy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0429842961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain. Detailing the transition of individuals who had survived in the war or had taken part in the war effort to going back a civilian life in 1945. Following the rise of the Labour party in Britain until 1964.
Author: Raphael Samuel
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1784786381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the 1940s. Samuel conjures up the era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, brilliantly bringing to life an age in which the Communist Party enjoyed huge prestige as a bulwark for the struggles against fascism and colonialism.
Author: Mary Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-03-31
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1800859716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is volume 1 of six accessible volumes covering UNITE's history from 1880-2010, covering the years 1880-1939, which includes the formation of the TGWU, the intensification of pre and post WW1 militancy, the General Strike, and the union's close relationship with the Labour Party.
Author: Andrew Thorpe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-19
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1317897463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the momentous period -- barely 30 years -- covered by this systematic reference/guide, the Edwardian world was transformed unrecognisably, through war, technological progress and social change, into the Nuclear Age. It saw the coming of mass democracy, the apogee of empire, the Depression, the threat of fascism, the development of suburban society, and, as yet scarcely understood, the end of Britain's international hegemony. Andrew Thorpe's superb contribution to the Companions series illuminates all this and much else. It will be indispensable to anyone interested in the history and politics of modern Britain.
Author: J. Eaden
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-05-10
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1403907226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new single volume history of the Communist Party of Great Britain examining the party from its foundations in 1920 to its demise in the early 1990s. Drawing on original research and a reading of specialist texts, the authors analyze the rise and fall of the party and evaluate its role on the left of British politics. Whilst sympathetic to the ideals and commitment of many British communist activists, the book is sharply critical of much of the actual practice of the party.
Author: Walter Garrison Runciman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521588010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this concluding volume of his trilogy on social theory, W. G. Runciman applies to the case of twentieth-century English society the methodology (distinguishing reportage, explanation, description, and evaluation) and theory of the preceding two volumes. Volume III shows how England's capitalist mode of production, liberal mode of persuasion, and democratic mode of coercion evolved in the aftermath of the First World War from what they had been since the 1880s, but then did not, in turn, evolve significantly following the Second World War. The explanation rests on an analysis of the selective pressures favouring some economic, ideological, and political practices over others in an increasingly complex environment, neither predictable nor controllable by policy-makers. This is supported by a graphic account of the changes themselves and how they were experienced by different segments of English society.
Author: Patricia L. Garside
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0429862822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1998, this book reprints eight articles from The London Journal, covering the history of London from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Each is an extensive bibliographical essay, updated by the individual contributors for this anthology. The book comes with a new introduction from a previous editor of the journal, Patricia Garside, and also with a specially commissioned guide to sources for London history and the libraries and special collections that house them. The London Journal was founded in 1975 to provide a forum for the study of London history: an eclectic and multi-disciplinary field. As well as articles based on original research, The London Journal has carried notes and comments, viewpoint and review articles, and general surveys of particular aspects of London life. In the past few decades the specialist literature on London has become extensive, intricate and dense. The opportunity for a systematic review of this literature presented itself on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of The London Journal, and the core of the work presented here first appeared in Volume 20(2), November 1995. Each of the authors, specialists in one of seven periods from Roman to contemporary times, was asked to evaluate the literature that had appeared in their field of London expertise during the last 20 years. For this book, each contribution has been updated where possible to take account of the very latest publications.