British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: 1945-1979

Name: British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: 1945-1979
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ISBN: 978-0-7546-0019-0

Alan Campbell etc.Nina Fishman John McIlroy(Herausgeber*in)

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Erschienen am 22. Dezember 1999

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756 Seiten

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The first volume in this two-volume set focuses on the years between Attlee and Wilson, which, with their transition from austerity to affluence, are sometimes stereotyped as halcyon days of industrial peace, but also a time of lost opportunity, when real opportunities to reform industrial relations and restructure trade unionism were squandered. The collection of essays aims to remedy the dearth of research on the trade unionism of the immediate post-war years and to go behind the facade and puncture myths. Written by authors from a range of disciplines, it focuses on the politics of trade unionism - not only unions' relations with political parties and the stte but also on the politics of workplace conflict and industrial action. It covers conventional issues such as relations between the unions and the Labour Party; but also discusses the diverse, neglected topics such as media coverage, union education, the Cold War and communism, and the political forces forging the discipline of industrial relations.
The book's analysis of major strikes suggests that an understanding of the developing militancy of the 1950s is essential to understanding the trade unionism of the 1960s and 1970s. The second volume covers the years 1964-79, which constitute a turbulent period in labour history and the high tide of trade unionism in 20th-century Britain. This volume of essays from contributors from varied disciplines subjects these years to historical scrutiny. Centred on a conception of industrial politics which sees what happened at the grassroots as being as vital as what happened in Parliament and Congress House, it takes a fresh look at well-rehearsed themes and re-examines the policies of the Labour and Conservative Parties. It also provides for analysis of neglected topics such as the role of the Communist, Trotskyist and rank-and-file organizations, as well as of issues of class, gender and ethnicity. Together the volumes offer a history of the 20th-century labour movement as a whole.

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Vol 1: Introduction - approaching post-war trade unionism, John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman. Part 1 Overviews: 1945-79 - the role of industrial correspondents, Geoffrey Goodman; making trade unionists - the politics of pedagogy, 1945-79, John McIlroy. Part 2 Survey: the post-war compromise - mapping industrial politics, 1945-64, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, John McIlroy. Part 3 Case studies, 1945-64: "shut your gob!" - the trade unions and the Labour Party, David Howell; the communism in the trade unions, Richard Stevens; social democracy and anti-communism - Allan Flanders and British industrial relations in the early post-war period, John Kelly; the shop-floor politics of productivity - work, power and authority relations in British engineering, c1945-57, Alan McKinlay and Joseph Melling; "the most serious crisis since 1926" - the engineering and shipbuilding strikes of 1957, Nina Fishman; "spearhead of the movement" - the 1958 London bus workers' strike, the TUC and Frank Cousins, Nina Fishman; democracy and trade unionism on the docks, Jim Phillips.Vol 2: Introduction - approaching post-war trade unionism, John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman. Part 1 Overviews 1945-79 - sociology, class and male manual work cultures, Mike Savage; women in the labour market and in the unions, Chris Wrigley; complex encounters - trade unions, immigration and racism, Ken Lunn. Part 2 Survey: the high tide of trade unionism - mapping industrial politics, 1964-79, John McIlroy and Alan Campbell. Part 3 Case studies, 1964-79: the Labour Party and the trade unions, Andrew Thorpe; the Conservative Party and the trade unions, Andrew Taylor; "what are we here for?" - George Woodcock and trade union reform, Robert Taylor; notes on the Communist Party and industrial politics, John McIlroy; "always outnumbered, always outgunned" - the Trotskyists and the trade unions, John McIlroy; how workers on the Clyde gained the capacity for class struggle - the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' work-in, 1971-72, John Foster and Charles Woolfson; "glorious summer", 1972 - the high tide of rank and file militancy, Dave Lyddon; afterword - what went wrong?, Richard Hyman.

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