Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain
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A01=Sidney Pollard
Author_Sidney Pollard
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Co-operation
co-operative movement
comparative labour organisation history
Earnings
economic crisis response
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industrial relations
nineteenth-century social history
trade union policy
Unionism
wage-earner class
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- ISBN 9780860787938
- Weight: 587g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume focuses on labour history in Britain, but brings in comparative material on the Continent, in particular inter-war Germany. Special attention is given to wages and living and working conditions in the 19th century, to Robert Owen and Co-operation, and to the modern trade union movement and its attempts to keep up the interests of its members in the fluctuating conditions of the late 19th and earlier 20th centuries. The author defends the notion that wage-earners have common interests and frequently share common experiences, and that their organisations have both a strictly economic aspect (trade unions) and a wider political dimension. The profound changes which the labour organisations underwent in the 19th and 20th centuries are a major concern of these essays.
Sidney Pollard was formerly at University of Bielefeld, Germany, and University of Sheffield, UK
