... Kremenchuk threat potential Hunedoara COS factory in Târgoviște Romania Târgoviște Industrial conflict Strategy Post-communist Trade unions This chapter confronts the game theoretical framework and the propositions developed in Chapter 3 with the empirical material and presents the study’s findings...

...Chapter 7 compares the trade unionism models dominating labor in the two different countries and extrapolates from this comparison to build a model that can be applied to most post-communist countries. Chapter 7 first turns to the question why so few trade unions could develop the strategic...

...Andrew Thorpe examines the long-established and continuing relationship between the trade unions and the Labour Party. He argues that whilst both organisations have changed over the years, and despite the contentious nature of the alliance, the relationship has proved enduring and profitable...

... with not being in uniform. However, with full employment, demand for industrial skills and experience, good wages and empowered trade unions there were many ways that reserved men could maintain and reconstruct breadwinner masculinity and position themselves discursively as superior to women through...

...Members of trade unions could also access legal advice and support through the mutual aid provision of their union. This emerged through the growth of tort law in the nineteenth century, and the unions’ desire to ensure that workers received acceptable treatment in line with the law...

... and trade unionism during the years 1968-1985. The study covers a period that has been identified with the ‘zenith’ of trade union militancy. The women’s liberation movement also emerged in this period, which produced a shift in public debates about gender roles and relations in the home and the workplace...

..., the economic gains of a major confrontation with the craft unions were likely to be marginal. This assessment is broadly confirmed by a preliminary analysis of the relationship between trade unions and labour productivity in the industry which indicates that, rather than increases in union strength being...

... Sir Walter Whitley Council system Carter Sir George shipyards shipbuilding labour policy labour relations Liberals trade unions industrial relations democracy While it would be widely accepted that traditional craft unionism remained more or less intact up to 1914, with at most a few cracks...

...This chapter presents conclusions to Part II, covering Chapters 7–9. As trade unions grew from small local clubs into large national organisations they moved away from a simple, direct democracy, in which everyone had an equal voice and offices were held in rotation, towards an increasing...

...This chapter analyzes the scattered writings of Robert Knight of the boilermakers' society. Given his widespread image as the most autocratic of the ‘Old Unionists’, he has consequently been almost universally dismissed as an archetypal ‘conservative’ interested only in narrow trade union matters...

.... The minutes of the Parliamentary Committee, which functioned as the national executive of the Trades Union Congress, allow a more careful analysis of behaviour on the trade union side of the process, making it possible to acquire the same detailed grasp of factional activity as has already been established...

...Wilkinson was a working-class woman who gained a scholarship to university and had a high-profile career in the labour movement, as a trade union official, MP and eventually Government Minister. She was influenced by her Nonconformist background, and by her idealistic internationalism. In her youth...

...Wrigley provides a vital sweeping overview of the path the British Labour Party took during the war. Utilising comparative data highlighting the labour movement across Europe, Wrigley shows how the trade union movement played a key role in the growth of Labour Party in a much needed transnational...

... a greater share of representation in the House of Commons. ⁶⁷ This desire for parliamentary representation even found favour among a number of important local trade union branches that had previously resisted attempts to stand independent Labour candidates. ⁶⁸ Finally, Labour...

... a decisive influence on the struggle. The declining state of the CP was particularly important in this. The Thatcherite right almost certainly had an exaggerated sense of the importance of communist influence in post-war British trade unionism, although Labour was not incapable of red-baiting during...

...This chapter traces the decline in working hours. In 1830 adults spent about half their hours at work, in 1970 one-third. Children were the focus of early attempts to reduce hours by legislation, but trade union action was more important than parliamentary legislation in achieving significant...

.... It examines the structural difficulties of unionising clothing workshops and restaurant workers, and at various attempts to overcome these. The chapter contrasts the Bengali experience with earlier Jewish immigrant trade-unionism, which was seen as important for working-class solidarity and for cutting across...

...–that influenced the development of Miliband’s programme of party renewal. It will become clear that these two institutional factors worked as a constraint to the development of his programme in a variety of ways, however they have also led to a change to the party’s relationship with the trade unions and to its...

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... of a Malthusian policy to attack the working-class body and to split up the pauper family. Protesters responded by bodily violence and by invoking ‘disembodied’ fear, through the use of effigies and other corporeal symbols. Trade unions employed violence against strike-breakers, machinery and the new police...