These specially commissioned essays by labor historians of international repute provide a complete survey of the global trajectory of labor history. Authoritative and well-researched, these essays consider the early labor history traditions as well as the new conceptions of class, gender, ethnicity, culture, community, and power. The contributors analyze key debates, question dominant paradigms, acknowledge minority critiques, and consider future directions. This book will be of interest to historians of working-class political parties and organizations, to students of trade unions and industrial conflict, and to social scientists interested in social and political protest.

Product Description: This multifaceted collection of essays, written from several disciplines, focuses on trade unionism in Britain in the 1950s. Scene-setting essays provide broad perspectives on trade union organizing and the general postwar industrial environment...read more

Product Description: The seven-month British national mining lockout of 1926 was one of the most important European industrial disputes of the twentieth century. It not only came to symbolize the defeat of the labor movement in the interwar years, but it also cast a long shadow over industrial relations in the mining industry and epitomized the predicament of British miners in the early decades of the century...read more

Product Description: The book also depicts the tragic fate of groups of British Communists who encountered Stalinism at first hand in the USSR. Much of the information in this section, as elsewhere in the book, is the result of new research on released material form previously closed archives in Moscow...read more

Product Description: Best practice procurement is a key contributor to any organization’s strategic goals, but requirements and experience differ between sectors: this book provides a range of perspectives on subjects central to improving purchasing performance across public and private, manufacturing and service sectors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The years 1964-79 constitute a turbulent period in labour history and the high tide of trade unionism in 20th-century Britain. This volume of essays from contributors from varied disciplines subjects these years to historical scrutiny...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The years between Attlee and Wilson, with their transition from austerity to affluence, are sometimes stereotyped as halcyon days of industrial peace, but also a time of lost opportunity, when real opportunities to reform industrial relations and restructure trade unionism were squandered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This revised edition provides an introduction to British trade unionism and key debates about its role in politics in the 1990s. It explores the political background to union activities, the industrial relations scene, the arguments for and against controversial aspects of union practice and the state of the unions in the face of the sustained challenge of the Conservative years...read more

Product Description: This is an integrated and comprehensive guide to higher education. It explains the system, how you survive in it and how you can study successfully. Completely up-to-date and containing information on recent changes, it is both a manual on how to study and a book which puts studying at university in context...read more