A history of British trade unions since 1889

Author(s)

• Clegg, Hugh Armstrong
• Fox, Alan
• Thompson, A. F.

Bibliographic Information

A history of British trade unions since 1889

by H.A. Clegg, Alan Fox and A.F. Thompson

Clarendon Press, 1964-1994

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 2 : pbk
• v. 3

Note

Vols. 2-3 by Hugh Armstrong Clegg

Contents: v. 1. 1889-1910 -- v. 2. 1911-1933 -- v. 3. 1934-1951

Bibliography: v. 2., p. [582]-594

Bibliography: v. 3., p. [437]-443

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780198204060

Description

This is the third and final volume in the authoritative History of the British Trade Unions since 1889. It covers the years between 1934 and 1951. These years saw gradual recovery from the world-wide economic depression, the Second World War, and its aftermath of austerity and development. It was a period of great achievement for the labour movement. Hugh Armstrong Clegg traces the story of the trade unions, their policies, their leaders, and their relations with government. Professor Clegg carefully sets his study against the economic and political background of the period, and provides a wealth of valuable detail. This is a comprehensive and dispassionate account by a leading authority on British trade unions and their history, which will be an important source for all historians of the labour movement in Britain.

Table of Contents

• Collective bargaining 1934-39
• trade unions in the labour movement 1934-39
• the war
• wartime politics and post-war planning
• the labour government 1945-51
• the years 1889-1951 in retrospect.

Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9780198283072

Description

This second volume of Hugh Armstrong Clegg's history of British trade unions covers the most eventful years in trade union history. 1911-1933 was an "heroic age" of industrial unrest which culminated in the General Strike of 1926. It witnesses a cycle of growth and decline in trade union membership without parallel; the construction of a system of industry-wide collective bargaining in place of district agreements; a series of crises in relations between unions and governments; and the emergence of a new philosophy of trade unionism leading to new strategies for the future.

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Details

• NCID: BA02663024
• ISBN:
  • 019828229X
  • 0198282982
  • 0198283075
  • 019820406X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Trade-unions -- Great Britain -- History