Labour History And The Labour Movement In Britain
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| Author | : Sidney Pollard |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2024-10-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1040239978 |
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 | : Martin Pugh |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2010-03-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1407051555 |
Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts Labour's rise to power by re-examining the impact of the First World War, the general strike of 1926, Labour's breakthrough at the 1945 general election, the influence of post-war affluence and consumerism on the fortunes and character of the party, and its revival after the defeats of the Thatcher era. Controversially, Pugh argues that Labour never entirely succeeded in becoming 'the party of the working class'; many of its influential recruits - from Oswald Mosley to Hugh Gaitskell to Tony Blair - were from middle and upper-class Conservative backgrounds and rather than converting the working class to socialism, Labour adapted itself to local and regional political cultures.
| Author | : Emmanuelle Avril |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2018-08-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1526126346 |
This book seeks to renew and expand the field of British labour studies, setting out new avenues for research so as to widen the audience and academic interest in the field, in a context which makes the revisiting of past struggles and dilemmas more pressing than ever.
| Author | : Zygmunt Bauman |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Labor |
| ISBN | : 9780719005022 |
Historical study of the labour movement in the UK from 1750 to 1955, with particular reference to the sociological aspects of the role of trade union leadership as an Elite group within the working class - covers the evolution of the labour political party, political leadership, etc. References and statistical tables.
| Author | : Matthew Worley |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780754667315 |
Senior and up-and-coming scholars present the myriad elements that influenced the early development and political identity of the Labour Party, from the party's connections with powerful unions to the impact of socialism, religion, and other political and social movements on the new party.
| Author | : Ad Knotter |
| Publisher | : Work around the Globe: Historical Comparisons |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Labor unions |
| ISBN | : 9789463724715 |
Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism.
| Author | : Nick Mansfield |
| Publisher | : Historic England |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781848021297 |
This richly illustrated book focuses on the built culture of the labour movement, largely constructed or funded by workers themselves, whose history and background has until now been largely ignored or forgotten.
| Author | : Lucy Bland |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2018-02-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1526109328 |
This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War. There are three broad areas this work intends to make a contribution to; the first is to help us further understand the role the Labour Party played in the conflict, and its evolving attitudes towards the war; the second strand concerns the notion of work, and particularly women’s work; the third strand deals with the impact of theory and practice of forces located largely outside the United Kingdom. Through these essays this book aims to provide a series of thirteen bite-size analyses of key issues affecting the British left throughout the war, and to further our understanding of it in this critical period of commemoration.
| Author | : Andrew Thorpe |
| Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
Andrew Thorpe's book rapidly established itself as the leading single-volume history of the Labour Party. This second edition takes the story to 2000 with a new chapter on the development of "New Labour" and the Blair government. The reasons for the party's formation, its aims and achievements, its failure to achieve office more often, and its remarkable recovery since its problems in the 1980s, as well as key events and leading personalities, are all discussed.
| Author | : Keith Barlow |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Conservatism |
| ISBN | : 9783631551370 |
British economic and industrial policy since 1979 is examined using a wide range of sources. Was this really «new», revival of earlier approaches or a rigorous extension of the IMF-imposed policies on the 1974-79 Labour Government? The question is asked: Was the creation of a large pool of unemployed labour necessary for reshaping the economy or was the aim to secure fundamental changes in the relations between capital and organised labour? Due to setbacks suffered by trade unions in the 1980s with factory closures and major job losses, the author questions Labour's motives in softening any meaningful opposition to the Conservatives, supporting ERM in 1990, reducing the role of trade unions in the Party itself and retaining key policies of the Thatcher era especially its trade union laws.
