Download or read book The Durham Miners 1919 1960 written by W.R. Garside and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Durham Miners (1971) examines the Durham miners’ movement and of its organization – its economic, social, financial and political development. It looks at the miners’ demands for nationalization and for improved working and living conditions, and the outcomes of trade union negotiation and of industrial dispute.
Download or read book Miners Unions and Politics 1910 1947 written by Alan Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The near destruction of the coal industry and the NUM offers a timely vantage point from which to appraise their history. This book presents a collection of specially commissioned essays by leading authorities on miners' history, which challenge the stereotypical imagery of miners' solidarity and loyalty to the Labour Party. This book examines the politics of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the unique influences of syndicalism and communism within some of its constituent areas, and the uneven pace of the Labour Party's 'forward march' within the coalfields. Such national developments are then studied within their diverse regional contexts through a series of case studies which permits comparison between the major British coalfields. Finally, the book considers the attempts to overcome these regional diversities with the formation of the National Union of Mineworkers and the nationalisation of the mining industry.
Download or read book Bulletin Durham County Local History Society written by Durham County Local History Society and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shadow of the Mine written by Huw Beynon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour’s Red Wall. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher’s war on the miners wasn’t good for green politics. ‘Excellent’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Brilliant’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Enlightening’ GUARDIAN
Download or read book The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions 1933 1945 written by Nina Fishman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pathbreaking book, essential reading for students of interwar political and social history. Previous histories of the period have underestimated the crucial role which Communists played in trade union organisation from top to bottom. Despite its relatively small size the Communist Party occupied a strategic place in the trade union movement: the leaders of the movement, notably Ernest Bevin, refused to acknowledge this at the time. Thanks to her extensive research and numerous interviews, and to the ’opening of the books’ of the Communist Part, Nina Fishman has been able to uncover a fascinating story, one which official Communist historians have never told, and which other historians could only recount in fragments. The main protagonists are the Communist Party General Seretary, Harry Pollitt, and the Editor of the Daily Worker, Johnny Campbell. The book brings to vivid life the work of activists on the shop floor and in the coalmines during the Depression and the Second World War. The book includes the first comprehensive analysis of Communist activity in key sectors of the British economy, notably in engineering shop stewards’ movements and among London busmen. It concludes with an authoritative review of Communists' part in the British war economy and a vigorous challenge to the conventional wisdom about the effect of Communist Party changes of line on the war on activists’ abilities to incite and lead strikes.
Download or read book A History of British Trade Unionism written by Henry Pelling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current debate about industrial relations cannot be understood without a knowledge of trade-union history. Dr Pelling's book, which has for several years been a standard work on the subject, has again been revised and updated to take account of recent research and to explain the course of events up to the Thatcher years, the miner's strike and the Employment Acts. The growth of white-collar unionism and the extension of women's rights are dealt with in the concluding chapters.
Download or read book A Bibliography of Industrial Relations written by G. S. Bain and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1979-03-29 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference book comprising a bibliography aiming to bring together secondary source interdisciplinary material on labour relations in the UK between the years 1880 and 1970 - covers employees attitudes, trade unions and employees associations, employers organizations, the labour market and working conditions, etc.
Download or read book The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb Volume 3 Pilgrimage 1912 1947 written by Webb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final volume of the letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As leading figures in the Fabian Society, prominent historians and public figures, they numbered among their correspondents some of the most outstanding personalities of their day, including E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, William Beveridge and Leonard Woolf. The letters in this volume run from 1912, when the Webbs signalled a fresh start in British politics by founding the New Statesman, to the death of Beatrice in 1943 and Sidney in 1947.
Download or read book Index to Theses Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Economic and Social History written by R. C. Richardson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern Labour History written by and published by Library Associ. This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origins of British Industrial Relations written by Keith Burgess and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of British Industrial Relations (1975) traces the beginnings of industrial relations in nineteenth century Britain, looking at the interdependence of economic, political, legal and ideological factors that provide the framework. This important study, focusing on the key sectors of engineering, building, coal mining and cotton textiles, shows how the origins of British industrial relations reflected the changing character of international capitalism during the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Mining in the East Midlands 1550 1947 written by A.R. Griffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Bibliography of the British Coal Industry written by Great Britain. National Coal Board and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unemployment and the state in Britain written by Stephanie Ward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s. Through a comparative case study of south Wales and the north-east of England, the book explores the impact of the highly controversial means test, the relationship between the unemployed and the government and the nature of some of the largest protests of the interwar period. This study will appeal to students and scholars of the depression, social movements, studies of the unemployed, social policy and interwar British society.
Download or read book West African Diamonds 1919 1983 written by P. A. L. Greenhalgh and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the history of the diamond mining industry and trade in West Africa - reviews the world diamond industry; examines the role of European foreign enterprise incl. Land concessions, labour supply, wages, labour relations, profitability and productivity; comments on African indigenization of digging concessions and operations, growth of the African diamond industry and the production factors; discusses the impact of government policies, (taxation, public ownership), and diamond marketing in Western Europe and within the region. Bibliography, graph, maps, statistical tables.
Download or read book International Directory of Business and Management Scholars and Research written by Deanna LaValle and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
