Trade Union Movement, a Social History
Author | : N. Raveendran |
Publisher | : Cbh Publications |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Coir industry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : N. Raveendran |
Publisher | : Cbh Publications |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Coir industry |
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Author | : Selig Perlman |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A.E. Musson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136614710 |
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.
Author | : Beatrice Webb |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2023-11-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The author of this British book states that "The reader must not expect to find, in this historical volume, either an analysis of Trade Union organisation, policy, and methods, or any judgment upon the validity of its assumptions, its economic achievements, or its limitations." The book instead explains how, since the original publication of the book in 1890, the trade union movement has grown to encompass 60% of all workers, and how it may now form the foundation for a new political party.
Author | : Sidney Webb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Albert Edward Musson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Rogers Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Labor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Beatrice Potter Webb |
Publisher | : Hubbard Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2013-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781473300309 |
This early work by Beatrice Potter Webb was originally published in 1894 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The History of Trade Unionism' is a fascinating work on social history and the trade union movement. Beatrice Potter Webb was born in Gloucester, England in 1858. Both her mother and brother died early in her childhood leaving her to be raised by her father, Richard Potter. He was a successful businessman with large railroad interests and many influential friends in politics and industry whose company the young Beatrice would become accustomed to. Upon reaching adulthood, Potter moved to London and helped her cousin, Charles, a social reformer, research his book The Life and Labour of the People in London. It was during this time that she was introduced to Sidney James Webb, who later became her husband and collaborator. The Webb's, together, wrote eleven volumes of work which arguably shaped the way subsequent scholars thought about sociology. They also collaborated on more than 100 books and articles on the conditions of factory workers, and the economic history of Britain, among other subjects. "
Author | : Derek H. Aldcroft |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351878352 |
What do unions do and why do they do it? Do they seek to maximise profit for their members, or to obtain better working conditions that benefit society as a whole? Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver here provide one of the first sustained studies of the effects of union activities in terms of economic performance and the impact on the business world. From the rise of the British mass trade union movement in the 1870s to the present day, the book examines the main trends in union development and structure, and the core strategies unions have used to achieve their objectives: the use of strikes, work rules and restrictive practices; workers’ attitudes to innovation; the wage bargaining process. Important assessments are made of the influence of these strategies on investment, innovation, economic growth, and the cost of structure and competitiveness of the UK economy.
Author | : Nelson Lichtenstein |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400838525 |
In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century. The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce. Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. State of the Union is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations.