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This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of wartime life and organization. Economics, burden-sharing, liberty and efficiency, womens' roles: all are discussed frankly with positive suggestions being made.
First published in 1939. This book provides a balanced picture of Trade Unionism as it was in the 1930s, both in general and in each of the principal industries and services. The study opens with a brief outline of Trade Union history, before examining Trade Unions in various industries, including mining, transport, and the postal service.
First published in 1941. This purpose of this history of the earlier phases of the political Labour movement was due to the author¿s belief that there was a need for a positive effort to re-create the legion of inspired and untiring propagandists for Socialism whose work made the Labour Party possible.
First published in 1925. In studying Robert Owen's life, this work reveals with a remarkable clarity the first phases of the Industrial Revolution crowded as it was with events, changes, ideas, and characters. This title will be of great interest to scholars and students of labour history.
This brilliant analysis, first published in 1923, predicted the development of shop floor bargaining and explains how attitudes, doubts and fears have remained relatively fixed yet open to various pressures. Most of all, it shows why employers extended recognition to work place unionism in the crucial years of 1917-19.
First published in 1948, this book gives a full account of the development of the British Labour Party from its emergence as a national influence in the first world war to its return to power with an effective majority after the second world war. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of history and politics.
First published in 1951. The purpose of this study was to consider the prospects of the British Co-operative movement in all its main aspects and not as a consumers¿ movement only. The author examines ways in which the Co-operative enterprise, in its various forms, could best be fitted into the economic structure of the coming society.
First published in 1924. This book provides a balanced picture of Trade Unionism as it was in the 1920s. The study opens with a brief outline of Trade Union history, before examining Trade Unions¿ structure, its place in government, and the internal issues that Trade Unions faced.
Excerpt from An Introduction to Trade Unionism: Being a Short Study of the Present Position of Trade Unionism in Great Britain Prepared for the Trade Union Survey of the Fabian Research DepartmentI shall begin with a survey of the numerical strength of the Trade Union movement, and for this purpose it may be useful to institute a comparison between the strength of Trade Unionism to-day and its strength at the time when the only elaborate surve...