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Respectable radicals : studies in the politics of railway trade unionism / David Howell.
Lippincott Library HD6668.R12 G74 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howell, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Employees--Labor unions--Great Britain--History.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Employees--Labor unions--Political activity--Great Britain--History.
- Railroads--Employees--Labor unions--Political activity.
- Railroads--Employees--Labor unions.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- National Union of Railwaymen--History.
- Labor unions--Political activity.
- Labor unions--Government policy--Great Britain.
- Local Subjects:
- National Union of Railwaymen--History.
- Labor unions--Political activity.
- Labor unions--Government policy--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 446 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, U.K. ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1999]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Company Servants and Labour Pioneers 1
- Part I Edwardian Questions 11
- 1 A Mystery and a Feud 25
- 2 Modernisation and Conciliation 67
- 3 Conflict 99
- 4 The Aisgill Disaster 136
- 5 The Lib-Lab Moment: the Rise and Fall of Edward Harford 158
- 6 Towards a Politics of Labour 179
- Part I Conclusions - 1914 - The Prospects 217
- Part II A New Deal and New Problems 223
- 7 Jimmy and Jack 238
- 8 Solidarities 293
- Part II Conclusions - Traditions and Innovations 337
- Part III 'The Fat Director is now the Fat Controller': The Lodging Turns Strikes of 1949 345
- Conclusion: A View from the Tracks 393.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [408]-416) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840146893
- OCLC:
- 39963354
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