The labour aristocracy, 1851-1914
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Bibliographic Information
The labour aristocracy, 1851-1914
Scolar Press , Ashgate Pub., c1994
Available at 17 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-183) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An examination of skilled and unskilled labourers, including post office workers, dock labourers and miners. The book also explores these in relation to trade unions.
Table of Contents
- The concept: theory and definition
- authority and pacemaking
- period and size
- skill, exclusivity and unionization. A new approach: general context
- the model. The engineers: as ideal types
- industrial experience. Dock labour and other unskilled: dock labourers
- similar unskilled. Secure workers: introduction
- control and paternalism, working conditions, trade unionism
- post office workers. Insecure workers: introduction
- building workers
- miners. Trade unions: general context
- leadership and policies
- unions, old and new
- union groupings. Politics: introduction
- political culture
- unions and party politics. Outside industry: introduction
- the family
- stratification
- consumerism.
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