The Post-war Compromise
British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics 1945-64
Published on 19. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
380 pages
978-0-85036-601-3 (ISBN)
Description
This multifaceted text, written by authors from a range of disciplines, focuses on the politics of trade unionism - not only unions' relations with political parties and the state but also on the politics of workplace conflict and industrial action. Scene-setting essays provide broad perspectives on trade union organising, and on the parameters of the post-war industrial environment. Case studies consider particular fields: union relations with the Labour Party, international politics, productivity, major strikes and key groups of workers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1, black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85036-601-3 (9780850366013)
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Persons
Alan Campbell is areader in labor and social history at the University of Liverpool. He is the coauthor with John McIlroy, a professor of industrial relations at Keele University, of "Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography. "Nina Fishman is an honorary research professor in history at the University of Swansea and the coauthor of "Opening the Books: Essays on the Social and Cultural History of British Communism."
Content
New Preface (2007); Preface to first edition; Introduction; approaching post-war trade unionism, John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman; Part One: Overviews, 1945???79: The role of industrial correspondents, Geoffrey Goodman; Making trade unionists: the politics of pedagogy, 1945???79, John McIlroy; Part Two: Survey: The post-war compromise: mapping industrial politics, 1945???64, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, John McIlroy; Part Three: Case Studies, 1945???64: ???Shut your gob!???: the trade unions and the Labour Party, David Howell; The Trades Union Congress in the international labour movement, Anthony Carew; Cold War politics: communism and anti-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, c.1945???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 busworkers??? strike, the TUC and Frank Cousins, Nina Fishman; Democracy and trade unionism on the docks, Jim Phillips; Afterword, Eric Hobsbawm; Index.