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| Author | : Jim Moher |
| Publisher | : Jgm Books |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2021-02-25 |
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| ISBN | : 9780955710728 |
'This fascinating biography sets the record straight on a giant of the Labour movement... and contains many lessons for us today.' - Frances O' Grady, TUC General Secretary 'Like many trade unionists, Walter Citrine was crucial to my education. A major political figure of the 20th century, Citrine deserves the great biography that Jim Moher has given him.' - Alan Johnson, former Home Secretary and union leader The forgotten story of a Liverpool lad who rose from the squalor of Edwardian Merseyside's bustling docks to become the confidant of Churchill and Roosevelt as leader of Britain's trade unions during the Second World War. Walter Citrine's life spanned the late-nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries. During his leadership of the Trades Union Congress, the unions progressed from impotent grandstanding to effective lobbying, influencing governments and employers to transform deplorable working conditions and elevate the worker's place in society. Through Citrine's life, readers will revisit the key historical episodes in which his work was so influential - the General Strike of 1926, the 'Great Depression' of 1928-34, the rise of Hitler and Fascism, the challenge of Stalin and Communism, the Second World War and the reconstruction afterwards. At a time when trade unions are once again being consulted by governments on their plans to revive the economy, never has Citrine's story been so relevant.
| Author | : Walter McLennan Citrine Baron Citrine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1952 |
| Genre | : Committees |
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| Author | : Peter Ackers |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2016-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3319341626 |
This book poses a major revisionist challenge to 20th century British labour history, aiming to look beyond the Marxist and Fabian exclusion of working class experience, notably religion and self-help, in order to exaggerate ‘labour movement’ class cohesion. Instead of a ‘forward march’ to secular state-socialism, the research presented here is devoted to a rich diversity of social movements and ideas. In this collection of essays, the editors establish the liberal-pluralist tradition, with the following chapters covering three distinct sections. Part One, ‘Other Forms of Association’ covers subjects such as trade unions, the Co-operative Party, women’s community activism and Protestant Nonconformity. Part Two, ‘Other Leaders’, covers employer Edward Cadbury; Trades Union Congress leader Walter Citrine; and the electricians’ leader, Frank Chapple. Part Three, ‘Other Intellectuals’, considers G.D.H. Cole, Michael Young and left libertarianism by Stuart White. Readers interested in the British Labour movement will find this an invaluable resource.
| Author | : Alastair J. Reid |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Looking both at individual workers and the organizations that represent them, Reid shows how unions have, throughout the modern era, been a crucial element in British life, and that all governments have had to develop policies to deal with them.
| Author | : Julie-Marie Strange |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2015-01-19 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1107084873 |
A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the paternal figure within the emotional life of families. Locating autobiography within broader social and cultural commentary, Julie-Marie Strange considers material culture, everyday practice, obligation, duty and comedy as sites for the development and expression of complex emotional lives. Emphasising the importance of separating men as husbands from men as fathers, Strange explores how emotional ties were formed between fathers and their children, the models of fatherhood available to working-class men, and the ways in which fathers interacted with children inside and outside the home. She explodes the myth that working-class interiorities are inaccessible or unrecoverable, and locates life stories in the context of other sources, including social surveys, visual culture and popular fiction.
| Author | : Henry Pelling |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 5 |
| Release | : 1963 |
| Genre | : Railways and the Trade Unions |
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| Author | : Tobias Harper |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0198841183 |
A history of the British Crown honours system in the 20th century, showing its evolution through a period of democratisation and decolonisation, Tobias Harper examines how governments used the honours system to shape ideologies of loyalty and service, while dissidents turned the symbolism of honours against the Crown.
| Author | : Geert Van Goethem |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2017-11-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351147749 |
This book charts the turbulent history of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) from its foundation in 1913, to its dissolution in 1945. Established to protect and advance the interests of workers of all countries and to further international solidarity, the IFTU from the outset was beset by difficulties. Within a year the First World War split the fledgling organisation, underlining national interests and creating resentment between some of the most powerful union interests. Although these differences were patched up after the end of hostilities, the Revolution in Russia and rise of Soviet Communism, with own aspirations to leadership of international labour, soon created new tensions within the IFTU.
| Author | : Andrew Adonis |
| Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2020-07-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1785906135 |
Statesman, pre-eminent leader and founder of the free world's then largest and most formidable trade union, Ernest Bevin was one of the most rousing figures of the twentieth century. Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition during the Second World War, he was Churchill's right-hand man, masterminding the home front while the war supremo commanded the battle front. Afterwards, he was Foreign Secretary at one of the most critical moments in international history, responsible for keeping Stalin and communism out of Western Europe, and for creating West Germany, NATO and the transatlantic alliance, all of which underpin European democracy and security to this day. An orphan farm boy from Bristol, Bevin's astonishing rise to fame and power is unmatched by any leader to this day. In this discerning and wide-ranging biography, Andrew Adonis examines how 'the working-class John Bull' grew to a position of such authority, and offers a critical reassessment of his life and influence. Finally exploring Bevin's powerful legacy and lessons for our own age, Adonis restores this charismatic statesman to his rightful place among the pantheon of Britain's greatest political leaders.
| Author | : Andrew Davies |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : History |
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Based extensively on interviews, examines the voluntary or involuntary leisure time of the working-class in adjacent English industrial cities. Emphasizes the different experiences of men and women, and the distinct youth culture. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
