Download or read book The History of Trade Unionism Classic Reprint written by Sidney Webb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Trade Unionism Though we undertook the study of the Trade Union movement, not to prove any proposition of our own, but to discover what problems it had to present to us, our minds were not SO blank on the subject that we had no preconception of the character of these problems. We thought they would almost certainly be economic, pointing a common economic moral; and that expectation still seems to us so natural, that if it had been fulfilled we should have accepted its fulfilment without comment. But it was not so. Our researches were no sooner fairly in hand than we began to discover that the effects of Trade Unionism upon the conditions of labour, and upon indus trial organization and progress, are so governed by the infinite technical variety of our productive processes, that they vary from industry to industry and even from trade to trade; and the economic moral varies with them. Where we expected to find an economic thread for atreatise, we found a spider's web; and from that moment we recognized that what we had first to write was not a treatise, but a history. And we saw that even a history would be impossible to follow unless we separated the general history of the whole movement from the particular histories of thousands of trade societies, some of which have maintained a continuous existence from the last century, whilst others have cropped up, run their brief course, and disappeared. Thus, when we had finished our labour of investigating the records of practically every important trade society from one end of the kingdom to the other, and accumulated piles of extracts, classified under endless trades and subdivisions of trades, we found that we must exclude from the first volume all but a small selection from those documents which appeared to us most significant with regard to the development of the general movement. Many famous strikes and lock-outs, many interesting trade disputes, many sensational prosecutions, and some furious outbursts of riot and crime, together with many drier matters relating to particular trades, have had either to be altogether omitted from our narrative, or else accorded a strictly subordinate reference in their rela tion to the history of Trade Unionism as a whole. All analysis of the economic effects of Trade Union action we reserve for a subsequent volume on the Problems of Trade Unionism, for which we shall draw more fully from the annals of the separate unions. And in that volume the most exacting seeker for economic morals will be more than satisfied; for there will be almost as many economic morals drawn as societies described. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trade Unionism Classic Reprint written by Henry H. Slesser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trade Unionism Considerable difference of Opinion exists as to the origin Of trade unions. At one time it was confidently stated that trade unions were directly derived from the old guilds of the Middle Ages. This statement was principally based upon the views of Dr. Brentano and particularly upon his work on the history and development of guilds and the origin of trade unions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of Trade Unionism in the United States Classic Reprint written by Selig Perlman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Trade Unionism in the United States Library, upon whose extensive and still unpublished re searches he based his summary of the history of the injunction; and to Professor Frederick L. Paxson, who subjected the manuscript to criticism from the point Of view Of General American History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trade Unionism New and Old Classic Reprint written by George Howell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trade Unionism New and Old All that I desire to add has been compressed into a Supplementary Chapter, in which the several controversial points are dealt with, and statistics are brought upto date. The book was written in the heat of controversies to which illusion is made, the somewhat severe criticisms being justified by the then facts and circumstances. If they now appear to be harsh, it is because the policy then denounced has been abandoned, or so modified as to be no longer open to the condemnation then pronounced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Select Documents Illustrating the History of Trade Unionism written by F. W. Galton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Documents Illustrating the History of Trade Unionism: I. The Tailoring Trade Metropolis, now Westminster against the City. We are able to trace his gradual increase of wages and diminution of hours, a progress constantly interrupted by the pressure of the unemployed, and by the enormous uctuations in the trade caused by the periods of Court mourning. We watch the working of the curious system of the House of Call, and we see the coming in of piecework, now universal in the trade. We may even, towards the close of the history, trace the beginnings of the pernicious system of giving out work to be done in the men's own homes, which has been, for the last fifty years, the special bane of the industry. We have, in fact, in this unique series of contemporary pictures of the tailoring trade, extend ing over a century and a quarter, most interesting materials, both for the story of the industry itself, and for that economic history of the eighteenth century of which we are all so much in need. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Trade Unionism in the United States Classic Reprint written by Robert Franklin Hoxie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trade Unionism in the United States The main reason for teaching, to me, is to open the students' minds to the possibility of questioning the fundamentals of current thinking. I want to turn out men who cannot be led naively by current judgments but who will subject these judgments to tests based on the validity of their underlying assumptions - in short, socially sophisticated, thinking men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Government of American Trade Unions Classic Reprint written by Theodore Wesley Glocker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Government of American Trade Unions The large and valuable collection Of trade-union publica tions at the Johns Hopkins University has been used, and other documents at the headquarters Of the national unions have been consulted. Use has been made of the scattered pamphlet literature published particularly during the second quarter Of the nineteenth century. Information gleaned from records has been supplemented by personal interviews with Officials Of most Of the national unions and with officers of local unions in Baltimore, Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance received at every stage Of the work from Professor Jacob H. Hol lander and Professor George E. Barnett, Of the Johns Hop kins University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trade Unions Classic Reprint written by Geoffrey Drage and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trade Unions The present little book owes its composition to the friendly importunities of the editor of the series, and not to any desire on the part of the author to volunteer enlightenment on so difficult a subject; but it claims to be an attempt to hold the balance level between the two parties to the Labour Contract - the Employer and the Employed - whose relations, be it remarked, are better in Great Britain than in any other country in the world. The subject is not only difficult, it is also a matter of the most serious consequence. The working classes are taking from day to day a greater interest and a greater share in the government of the British Empire. The trade union is the school in which the pick of these men have learnt the earliest lessons of public life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trade Unionism and Labor Problems Classic Reprint written by John Rogers Commons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trade Unionism and Labor Problems My colleagues, Professor T. S. Adams and Professor E. A. Gilmore, have given me aid which I heartily appreciate, and I have been fortunate in the assistance rendered by Miss Helen L. Sumner of the Wisconsin University Graduate School. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sane Trade Unionism Classic Reprint written by W. V. OSBORNE and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sane Trade-Unionism Yet notwithstanding all these difficulties, before the close of the century Trade Unions had not only gained legal sanction, and won special privileges and immunities from Parlia ment, but had become the most powerful organisations in the industrial world, whilst their beneficial influence in raising the work men's standard of living was almost universally acknowledged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Trade Unionism Classic Reprint written by George M. Janes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Trade Unionism The author is indebted to the Annals of the Amer ican Academy (january, and the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota for per mission to use materials from articles contributed by him to these journals. He also desires to express his thanks to his wife for unfailing sympathy and for valuable assistance rendered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trade Unionism on the Railways written by G. D. H. Cole and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trade Unionism on the Railways: Its History and Problems As we shall have to discuss the important Unions in detail in the course of this book, a bare list will suffice here, with a very brief indication of the lines of demarcation between them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Selected Articles on Trade Unions Classic Reprint written by Edna Dean Bullock and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Articles on Trade Unions Out of the wealth of literature on trade unions, a limited selection for reprinting is planned to serve: 1. as a general historical, descriptive and critical exposition of the subject, 2. as the foundation for arguments on the benefits of trade unions to their members and to society. Advanced students of the subject may see no need of the general literature of so time-worn a subject, and no room for argument on what appears to be a one-sided topic. It should be remembered, however, that in many parts of our country, particularly where agriculture is the chief industry, trade unionism is absolutely unknown to the people, except through newspaper publicity given when some outrage of public welfare is charged against unionism. With a view to making this handbook useful to people whose sole knowledge has come from such sources, no blindly partisan literature has been reprinted. The publications of the American Federation of Labor and the National Association of Manufacturers are listed in the bibliography, and may be had by corresponding with the officers of those organizations. The bibliography is designed to be comprehensive enough to be of use to advanced students of the subject as well as to the general public and the debater. An earlier number of the Debaters' Handbook Series on the Open versus the Closed Shop contains an extensive bibliography. Duplication of reprints contained in the earlier number has been avoided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Closed Shop in American Trade Unions Classic Reprint written by Frank T. Stockton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Closed Shop in American Trade Unions The primary aim of the present study is to set forth the facts concerning the closed shop. It is proposed, first, to trace the manner in which the closed-shop rule developed among the early trade societies in America, and to disclose the motives which led to its incorporation into trade-union policy. Secondly, the history of the closed-shop movement will be set forth. The relative importance attached to the enforcement of the closed shop at various stages in our industrial development and the efforts which employers have made to check its operation will be shown. Next, the forms of the closed shop as they exist in various unions will be described. This analysis will make clear what the closed shop is and how far exclusion from employment is involved in its working. The manner in which the closed shop is established and the methods by which it is enforced will then engage our attention. When the closed shop has thus been described in detail, it will be possible in succeeding chapters to study its value as a trade-union device and its economic import. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trade Unions written by William Trant and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trade Unions: Their Origin and Objects, Influence and Efficacy To the officers and members of all Trade and Labor Unions, and to that much abused but serviceable class of Humanitarians - the despised "Labor Agitators" - this pamphlet is respectfully dedicated, with the hope that a perusal of its pages may make the subject of Trade Unions better understood and more thoroughly appreciated. The five opening chapters of this pamphlet are condensed from the prize essay on "Trade Unions," written by Mr. Wm. Trant, who secured for it the 50 prize offered a few years ago by the Trade Union Congress of Great Britain. It is a standard work, prepared after considerable research, and it has been carefully edited to suit American conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The History of Trade Unionism Among Women in Boston Classic Reprint written by Women's Trade Union Leagu Massachusetts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Trade Unionism Among Women in Boston But this does not help the two million women who are in industry today. Their time for serving apprenticeships has long gone by, trade schools are not for them, and the widening of the field of employment must come too slowly ever to make their looking for jobs any easier. For these women, organization is the only way out. It may not Offer the final solution, but it is the only immediately practicable one. Granted the unskilled workman and the over-supply of unskilled labor, much can be done through a system of collective bargaining in the way of a fair presentation of the case to the employer that the individual workman could not hope to achieve, and within such limits as improvement is possible organization can bring it. An organization means much too for women because it gives them the business experience of which they stand often in such bit ter need, and which through the ages they have been de nied, and if properly managed, it should awaken a class interest, a desire to improve what is wrong, not only for themselves, but for those who come after them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Studies in American Trade Unionism Classic Reprint written by Jacob H. Hollander and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in American Trade Unionism But much more than the lessening interest of other prob lems, it has, Of course, been the increasing intrinsic im portance of the labor question that really explains the present. Popular absorption in the subject. The marvellous indus trial expansion of the United States in the past decade has been accompanied by a notable change in the quality Of the productive factors. Labor, as an industrial agent, no. Less than capital, has become almost a new thing under an Old name. The familiar problems of the labor world have taken on a more intense phase, and a whole array of new questions challenge attention. Of these labor problems, trade unionism is far and away the most important. Broadly understood, American trade unionism is the Merican labor problem; and, in a narrow acceptation, trade-union policy and practice impinge at some point or other upon such specific social problems as immigration, child-labor, employers' liability, and methods Of industrial remuneration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.