Alastair Reid

The tide of democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Shipyard workers and social relations in Britain, 1870-1950

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study of British shipbuilding in its heyday brings together original discussions of the organization of production, the relationship between leaders and members of the industry's key trade union, and the involvement of that union in wider labour politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847797605
• Artikelnr.: 42522152

Autorenporträt

Alastair J. Reid is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction 1.
Markets and firms 2. Management and labour 3. Skills and trade unions 4.
The impact of machinery: hullbuilders 5. The impact of machinery:
outfitters 6. Conclusions to Part I 7. Leadership in the boilermakers'
society 8. Robert Knight and industrial democracy 9. John Hill and the the
Clyde unrest 10. Conclusions to Part II 11. Liberalism and socialism 12.
Robert Knight and the origins of the Labour Party 13. Socialism and
liberalism 14. John Hill and an independent Labour Party 15. Conclusions to
Part III Bibliography Index