Labour History And The Labour Movement In Britain

Author : Billy Frank,Craig Horner,David Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443822541

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The British Labour Movement and Imperialism by Billy Frank,Craig Horner,David Stewart Pdf

With Foreword by Tony Benn. This edited collection explores the British labour movement's relationship with imperialism in the period 1800–1982 through nine inter-connected articles. Labour historians have tended to neglect the labour movement's interaction with imperialism, preferring to concentrate on industrial relations, internal factionalism, the Labour Party-trade union alliance, and economic policymaking. In order to redress the balance, this book takes a broad chronological overview of the subject and engages with key themes, ranging from trade union interaction with empire, and the influence of popular imperial culture, to post-war colonial development, and responses to post-colonialism. Taking stock both of the labour movement in a broader context and of new approaches to the history of British imperialism, the collection combines the work of leading authorities on labour history with recent scholarly research. By blending this combination of economic, social, political and cultural analyses, it makes a substantial contribution to the debates surrounding the legacy of imperialism and the evolution of the British labour movement. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, teachers and students of modern British political, social, economic and cultural history. It will also appeal to Labour Party members and labour movement activists.

Author : Sidney Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023666352

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Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain by Sidney Pollard Pdf

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 : Rob Sewell
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In the Cause of Labour – A History of British Trade Unionism by Rob Sewell Pdf

There are many narrative histories of the struggles of British workers. However, Rob Sewell's book is different. This book is aimed especially at class-conscious workers who are seeking to escape from the ills of the capitalist system, that has embroiled the world in a quagmire of wars, poverty and suffering. This history of trade unions is particularly relevant at the present time. After a long period of stagnation, the fresh winds of the class struggle are beginning to blow. Rob Sewell's book was written precisely with these new forces in mind. The British labour movement is the oldest in the world. More than two hundred years ago, the pioneers of the movement created illegal revolutionary trade unions in the face of the most terrible violence and repression. In the course of the nineteenth century they built trade unions of the downtrodden unskilled workers - those with "blistered hands and the unshorn chins," as Feargus O'Connor called them. Finally, they established a mass party of Labour based on the trade unions, breaking the monopoly of the Tories and Liberals. In the stormy years following the Russian Revolution they engaged in ferocious class battles, culminating in the General Strike of 1926. Nor did the achievements of the British trade union movement cease with the Depression and the Second World War. The post-war upswing served to strengthen the working class and heal the scars of the inter-war period. By the time of the industrial tidal wave of the early 1970s, they drove a Tory government from power, after turning Edward Heath's anti-trade union laws into a dead letter. Later, the miners, the traditional vanguard of the British working class, waged an epic year-long struggle in 1984-85 against the juggernaut of Thatcherism. They could have succeeded, had the rightwing Labour and trade union leaders not abandoned them and left them isolated. The book contains vital lessons and is essential reading for today's worker militants.

Author : Leslie A. Clarkson
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018999527

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British Trade Union and Labour History by Leslie A. Clarkson Pdf

The Economic History Society commissioned this series which aims to provide a guide to current interpretations of the key themes of economic and social history in which advances have been made or in which there has been significant debate. The books are intended to be a springboard to futher reading rather than a set of pre-packaged conclusions.

Author : Edward H. Hunt
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036214802

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British Labour History, 1815-1914 by Edward H. Hunt Pdf

Author : Asa Briggs,John Saville
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349007554

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Essays in Labour History 1886–1923 by Asa Briggs,John Saville Pdf

Compilation of writings on historical aspects of the labour movement in the UK from 1886 to 1923 - covers the rise of the labour and cooperative political partys, trade unionism, socialist ideology, political leadership, strike activity, etc. References. Biography hardie jk. Biography macdonald r.

Author : Wolfgang J. Mommsen,Hans-Gerhard Husung
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351815253

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The Development of Trade Unionism in Great Britain and Germany, 1880-1914 by Wolfgang J. Mommsen,Hans-Gerhard Husung Pdf

17 The National Free Labour Association: Working-Class Opposition to New Unionism in Britain by Geoffrey Alderman -- Part Five Trade Unions, Employers and the State -- 18 The British State, the Business Community and the Trade Unions by John Saville -- 19 Industrial Structure, Employer Strategy and the Diffusion of Job Control in Britain, 1880-1920 by Jonathan Zeitlin -- 20 Repression or Integration? The State, Trade Unions and Industrial Disputes in Imperial Germany by Klaus Saul -- Part Six Trade Unions and the Political Labour Movement -- 21 Trade Unions and the Labour Party in Britain by Jay M. Winter -- 22 The Free Trade Unions and Social Democracy in Imperial Germany by Hans Mommsen -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Author : Arthur Leslie Morton,George Tate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Labor
ISBN : UCSC:32106000933785

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The British Labour Movement, 1770-1920 by Arthur Leslie Morton,George Tate Pdf

Author : Neville Kirk
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719042380

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Change, Continuity and Class by Neville Kirk Pdf

EU security governance assesses the effectiveness of the EU as a security actor. The book has two distinct features. Firstly, it is the first systematic study of the different economic, political and military instruments employed by the EU in the performance of four different security functions. The book demonstrates that the EU has emerged as an important security actor, not only in the non-traditional areas of security, but increasingly as an entity with force projection capabilities. Secondly, the book represents an important step towards redressing conceptual gaps in the study of security governance, particularly as it pertains to the European Union. The book links the challenges of governing Europe's security to the changing nature of the state, the evolutionary expansion of the security agenda, and the growing obsolescence of the traditional forms and concepts of security cooperation.

Author : Arthur Leslie Morton,George Tate
Publisher : New York University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:491305939

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The British Labour Movement, 1770-1920 by Arthur Leslie Morton,George Tate Pdf

Author : Richard Henry Tawney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258403943

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The British Labor Movement by Richard Henry Tawney Pdf

Author : Mary Davis
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003437378

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Comrade Or Brother? by Mary Davis Pdf

Examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing.

Author : Steven Parfitt
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781383537

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Knights Across the Atlantic by Steven Parfitt Pdf

Knights Across the Atlantic tells the story of the Knights of Labor, one of the great social movements of American history, in Britain and Ireland.

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351877916

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Transnational Labour History by Marcel van der Linden Pdf

There has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on individual countries are essential, it is only by comparing and contrasting the experiences across time and space that a true understanding of the subject can be attempted. Professor Marcel van der Linden, has contributed much to the debate on cross-border processes and comparisons. This volume makes available in English a collection of twelve of his most important essays on the theme of transnational labour history. Previously published in a range of journals and volumes, with two original contributions, Transnational Labour History brings them together in a single convenient collection, together with a new introduction. This work will undoubtedly provide an invaluable resource for all students of European labour history.

Author : Mary Davis
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0745325777

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Comrade or Brother? by Mary Davis Pdf

A revised, updated and expanded edition of this classic feminist account of British labour history Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialisation through its development within a capitalist society, up to the end of the twentieth-century. Written by a leading activist in the labour movement, the book redresses the balance in much labour history writing. It examines the place of women and the influence of racism and sexism as well as providing a critical analysis of the rival ideologies which played a role in the uneven development of the labour movement.