Hugh Clegg – Alan Fox – Arthur Thompson. A History of British Trade Unions since 1889.

Contents

VOLUME I

1889-1910

PREFACE

1 – THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT BEFORE 1889

Size and Distribution

The Craft Societies

Coal and Iron

Hosiery and Footwear

Cotton

Other Industries

Trade Unionism and Social Status

Union Government and Policy

The Law, Parliament, and Public Opinion

Trade Unions and Politics

2 – THE NEW UNIONISM AND THE FIRST COUNTER-ATTACK

1889

The Counter-attack begins

More Defeats, 1891-3

The Survivors, 1894-1900

The Nature of the New Unionism

3 – COAL AND COTTON

Dimensions

The Miners’ Federation

The Non-federated Areas

The 1893 Lock-out

Spinning Lock-outs and the Brooklands Agreement

The Weavers’ Uniform List

Industrial Peace, 1895-1900

The Organization of the Scottish and South Wales Coalfields

4 – THE CRAFT UNIONS AND THE GENERAL COUNTER-ATTACK

The Boom Years, 1889-91

Demarcation Disputes and Inter-union Conflict

Tailoring

Engineering

Printing and Shipbuilding

Building Craftsmen slip the Leash

Furniture

The Engineering Lock-out

The Nature of the Counter-attack

5 – PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Agriculture and Fishing

Wholesale Clothing

Wool and Minor Textiles

Industrial Collaboration

The Boot and Shoe Trade

Iron and Steel

The Penrhyn Dispute

6 – PARLIAMENTARY ACTION AND THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS

Government Employees

Teachers and Other White-collar Workers

Railwaymen

Coal and Cotton

The Trades Union Congress

7 – PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION AND SOCIALISM

Parliamentary Representation

Local Representation and Trades Councils

Socialist Infiltration in the Unions

8 – THE LAW AND THE TAFF VALE JUDGEMENT

The Courts and the Unions, 1890-1900

The Taff Vale Judgement and its Effects

9 – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNDER TAFF VALE

The Effect of the Taff Vale Judgement on Strikes

Decline and Stagnation

Progress in Collective Bargaining

The Building Industry

The General Federation of Trade Unions

White-collar Unions and Public Employees

The Causes of Industrial Peace

10 – POLITICS, 1900-10

Parliamentary Activities, 1900-5

The Labour Representation Committee

The Election of 1906

Parliamentary Work, 1906-10

Politics Outside Parliament

The Osborne Judgement and the 1910 Elections

11 – MOUNTING INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT, 1906-10

The Railway Conciliation Scheme

The Craft Societies in the Doldrums

Inter-union

Conflict Growth, Especially in Coal and Cotton

12 – GROWTH AND CHANGE, 1889-1910

Growth

Collective Bargaining and its Shortcomings

Trade Union Government

Comparative Wages and Earnings

Public Standing

The ‘Working-class Movement’

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VOLUME II

1911-1933

PREFACE

1 – TRADE UNIONS IN 1910

Membership

Industrial Functions

Political Action

Finance

Government

Leaders and Ideas

2 – INDUSTRIAL UNREST, 1911-14

Causes of Unrest

The Cambrian Strike, 1910-11

Transport 1911

Lancashire Weavers, 1911-12

Coal, 1912

Dundee Jute and London Docks, 1912

London Cab Drivers and Midlands Metalworkers, 1913

Dublin, 1913-14

London Building Workers and Yorkshire Miners, 1914

Causes Reviewed

3 – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, THE GOVERNMENT, AND UNION STRUCTURE

The Crafts, Coal, and Cotton

Other Industries and the Less-Skilled

Public and Private Services

The Government

Trade Union Structure

4 – ASQUITH’S WAR

The Impact of War

The Munitions of War Act, 1915

Dilution

Wages and Prices

Conscription, Exemption, and Manpower Shortages

5 – LLOYD GEORGE’S WAR

Lloyd George and the Unions

The May Strikes

Tensions within the Unions

Pay and Manpower, 1917-18

The Effects on the Unions

6 – PARTY POLITICS, 1911-18

The Prewar Years

Unity Maintained, 1914-17

The Reconstruction of the Party

The General Election of 1918

7 – RECONSTRUCTION AND DIRECT ACTION

Reconstruction

Collective Bargaining, 1919-20

Industrial Unrest and Its Causes

‘Direct Action’

Trade Unions at a Peak of Growth

8 – THE POSTWAR DEPRESSION

The Impact of the Depression

Pay Reductions

The Engineering Lockout

The Effects on the Unions

9 – THE FIRST LABOUR GOVERNMENT

The Unions and the Labour Party, 1918-23

The Communists and the Left

The First Labour Government

Industrial Disputes

The Aftermath

10 – THE GENERAL STRIKE

Industrial Relations, 1925

Red Friday

Autumn and Winter, 1925-6

Negotiations

The Strike

The Miners’ Lockout

Inquest and Aftermath

11 – INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE TWENTIES

Collective Bargaining under Stable Conditions

Industrial Relations at the Workplace

Inside the Unions

A New Philosophy

The Mond-Turner Talks

12 – THE SECOND LABOUR GOVERNMENT

The Unions and the Labour Party, 1925-9

The Government

Pay Cuts and Industrial Disputes

Unemployment

The Fall of the Government

13 – THE TURN OF THE TIDE

The National Government

Resisting Pay Cuts

Industrial Relations in the Depression

The Unions

14 – TRADE UNIONS IN 1933

Growth

Collective Bargaining

Government

Finance

Political Action

Public Standing

Wages and Welfare

The Future

Statistical Appendix

Biographies

Bibliography

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VOLUME III

1934-1951

PREFACE

I – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, 1934-1939

Engineering

Shipbuilding and Steel

Coalmining

Textiles and Clothing

Construction

Paper and Printing

The Railways

Other Transport

Other Private Industries

White-Collar Unions in Private Industry

Local-Government Services

Gas, Electricity, and Water Supply

The Civil Service

The Development of Collective Bargaining

2 – TRADE UNIONS IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT, 1934-1939

Congress and the General Council

The Labour Party

The Labour Movement’s Foreign Policy

The Unions and the Left

3 – THE WAR

The ‘Phoney’ War

General Pay Movements 1940-1945

Special Pay Problems

Manpower

Joint Production Committees

Strikes, the Left, and the Law

Bevin as Minister of Labour and National Service

4 – WARTIME POLITICS AND POST-WAR PLANNING

The Labour Party at War

Post-war Plans

Trade Union Reconstruction

The General Election of 1945

5 – THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT, 1945-1951

The Unions after the War

The Government’s Record

Collective Bargaining 1945-1947: Hours of Work

Nationalization and Industrial Democracy

The Cold War and the World Federation of Trade Unions

Wage Policy

‘Severe Restraint’

The End of Wage Policy

Salaries under Wage Policy

The Fall of the Labour Government

6 – THE YEARS 1889-1951 IN RETROSPECT

Union Growth

Collective Bargaining

Union Structure

Union Government and the Work-place

Industrial Action

Political Action

Statistical Appendix

Trade Union Biographies

Bibliography