Download or read book The Trade Union Question in British Politics written by Robert Taylor and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative book examines the changing relationship between the trade unions and British governments from the making of the social settlement of 1944-1945 to the post-Thatcherite era of the Conservative political domination of the early 1990s.
Download or read book Trade Unions in British Politics written by Ben Pimlott and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition takes account of changes since the first edition. There are three new chapters looking at the growing importance of Europe and the Community to British trade Unionism, at the political role of unions during the Thatcher years, and at aspects of Labour Party-union relationship.
Download or read book British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics written by John McIlroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999 , this book discusses trade unionism in Britain from 1964 to 1979. Detailing political change in British politics from union strikes to Thatcherism in the late 1970s and the implications that had on trade unions and industrial politics.
Download or read book Government Versus Trade Unionism in British Politics Since 1968 written by Gerald Allen Dorfman and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph examining trade union power since 1968 in the UK - discusses labour relations and wages conflicts, strikes, development of social contracts, government attempts to reduce union power and influence on economic policy decision making, implications of EC membership, etc. References.
Download or read book Trade Unions in British Politics written by Ben Pimlott and published by London ; New York : Longman. This book was released on 1982 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Conservatism and Trade Unionism 1945 1964 written by Peter Dorey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the twentieth century, the Conservative Party engaged in an ongoing struggle to curb the power of the trade unions, culminating in the radical legislation of the Thatcher governments. Yet, as this book shows, for a brief period between the end of the Second World War and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1964, the Conservative Party adopted a remarkably constructive and conciliatory approach to the trade unions, dubbed 'voluntarism'. During this time the party leadership made strenuous efforts to avoid, as far as was politically possible, confrontation with, or legislation against, the trade unions, even when this incurred the wrath of some Conservative backbenchers and the Party's mass membership. In explaining why the Conservative leadership sought to avoid conflict with the trade unions, this study considers the economic circumstances of the period in question, the political environment, electoral considerations, the perspective adopted by the Conservative leadership in comprehending industrial relations and explaining conflict in the workplace, and the personalities of both the Conservative leadership and the key figures in the trade unions. Making extensive use of primary and archival sources it explains why the 1945-64 period was unique in the Conservative Party's approach to Britain's trade unions. By 1964, though, even hitherto Conservative defenders of voluntarism were acknowledging that some form of official inquiry into the conduct and operation of trade British unionism, as a prelude to legislation, was necessary, thereby signifying that the heyday of 'voluntarism' and cordial relations between senior Conservatives and the trade unions was coming to an end.
Download or read book Rookes V Barnard and the Trade Union Question in British Politics written by Paul Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, given the scope of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 that had granted immunity against specific torts (civil wrongs) to organisers of industrial action, the courts had little role in industrial relations. Hence, the importance of the House of Lords decision in 1964 that, in threatening to strike to secure Douglas Rookes's removal from the Heathrow design office of the British Overseas Aircraft Corporation after his resignation from the union, Alfred Barnard and others had used unlawful means because a threat to break a contract of employment came within the tort of intimidation that was unprotected by the Trade Disputes Act's statutory immunities, and thus, they were liable to pay damages to Rookes. The legal arguments deployed are analysed within growing unease in the Conservative Party and among employers at the emergence of workplace union organisation and national strikes. Despite being partially neutralised by the Trade Disputes Act 1965, Rookes was a harbinger of a new judicial activism that outflanked trade unions' tort immunities by creating novel common law liabilities. This in turn laid the political basis for subsequent Conservative legislation to restrict and regulate trade unions and industrial action, a project that is ongoing.
Download or read book British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics The post war compromise 1945 64 written by Alan Campbell and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes focusing on the politics of British trade unionism since World War II, considering not only the movement's relations with the state but also factionalism, the dynamics of industrial struggle, and the allegiances of union activists. Historians, scholars of politics and industrial relations, and others present 11 studies, many from a September 1997 conference in Warwick augmented with commissioned essays, include overviews, a survey, and case studies. The second volume is subtitled The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1940-1979. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Early Trade Unionism written by Malcolm Chase and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once 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.
Download or read book The Government of British Trade Unions written by Joseph Goldstein and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics written by John Mcllroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First 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.
Download or read book British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress written by Gerald Allen Dorfman and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Politics and the Labour Question 1868 1990 written by David Powell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the way in which the growth of an organized labour movement and the emergence of a separate Labour party contributed towards the industrialization of politics and the institutionalization of industrial conflicts in the political sphere. It also explores the changing attitudes of all parties, Labour included, to major questions of public policy such as the management and regulation of industry, the relief of unemployment, the conduct of industrial relations and the reform of trade union law. Chronological tables of principle events, acts of Parliament, statitstics on trade union membership and the Labour vote are included along with a bibliographical essay giving guidance on further reading.
Download or read book Comrades in conflict written by Peter Dorey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other primary sources to explain why Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle embarked on legislation to regulate the trade unions and curb strikes, and why this aroused such strong opposition, not just from the unions, but within the Cabinet and among backbench Labour MPs. This opposition transcended the orthodox ideological divisions, making temporary allies of traditional adversaries in the Party. Even Wilson’s threats either to resign, or call a general election, if his MPs and Ministers failed to support him and Castle, were treated with derision. His colleagues called Wilson’s bluff, and forced him to abandon the legislation, in return for a ‘solemn and binding’ pledge by the trade unions to ‘put their own house in order’ in tackling strikes.
Download or read book The High Tide of British Trade Unionism written by John McIlroy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual essays chart the position of men and women in work, assess the impact of immigration and map industrial politics. Case studies open up other fields: unions' relations with the Labour Party, media coverage, union education, the Cold War and the diverse political forces from Labourism to Trotskyism forging industrial relations. This path-breaking analysis provides an excellent guide to the trade unionism and militancy of the 1960s and 1970s.
Download or read book British Trade Unions and the Problem of Change written by Will Paynter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What about the Workers written by Andrew Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the Conservative Party and the organised working class is fundamental to the making of modern British politics. Industrialisation and urbanisation saw the emergence of democracy and class politics, symbolised by the development of trade unions, which assumed growing political significance. At the book's core is a puzzle: why, throughout its history, was the Conservative Party seemingly accommodating towards the organised working class? And why, in the space of a relatively few years in the 1970s and 1980s, did it abandon this heritage? In addressing these questions, the book argues that throughout its history the Conservative Party has faced a broad strategic choice with respect to the organised working class of either exclusion or inclusion. For much of its history, party leaders calculated that despite skepticism and hostility from the party, they had more to gain from inclusion. Notwithstanding, the organised working class was always regarded with suspicion.
