A History of British Trade Unionism 1700-1998

ISBN-13: 9780333596111 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 291 str.

W. Hamish Fraser

Opis

This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest documented attempts at collective action by working people in the eighteenth century through to the very different world of New Unionism' and New Labour'.

Spis treści

Abbreviations.- Learning the Game.- The Rise of National Unions, 1850-1880.- The Coming of Collective Bargaining, 1850-1880.- Revival and Confrontation, 1880-1898.- The Intervening State, 1893-1914.- Workers, War and the State, 1914-1921.- The Industrial Relations of Depression, 1921-1933.- Renewal, Regulation and Consolidation, 1933-1951.- Policies and Powers, 1951-1974.- The Fall? 1874-1998.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

W. HAMISH FRASER is Professor of Modern History at the University of Strathclyde.