Titlebook: Workers and Employers; J. T. Ward,W. Hamish Fraser Textbook 1980Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1980 business.employer.industr

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The Unskilled,ship. A substantial gap existed between the world of the skilled man and that of the unskilled labourer (1, 2). In the boom of the early 1870s, unions began to flourish among the previously unorganised. Those most depressed of workers, the agricultural labourers, organised societies in the Midlands,

Hiatus

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The Militant Years,the aftermath of the Taff Vale judgement, initially restrained militant industrial action by the unions, but collective bargaining continued to expand, sometimes under the aegis of the Labour Department of the Board of Trade, set up under the Conciliation Act of 1896 (2). Following a Royal Commissio

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The First World War and After,e anxious to co-operate with the Government in the war effort. The needs of war-time production required a rapid expansion of the labour force in munitions industries, and Government and employers pressed for a lifting of those well established restrictive practices by which unions insisted that cer

discord

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The Second World War and After,d long-term problems (1). Order 1305 substituted compulsory arbitration for strikes and lockouts (2,3), though it was not always effective (4); and unions continued to seek ways of avoiding inter-union disputes (5) and to modify some traditional practices (6). In addition to attempting to avoid indu

Forehead-Lift

The Fifties,ted its abolition. The TUC of 1950 by a two-to-one majority favoured retention, but in February 1951 the General Council demanded ‘revocation’ and ‘the removal of all restrictions on strikes and lockouts’, in the new situation of inflation and prosecutions. The consequent substitution of Order 1376

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The Sixties,organisation into craft (2), general (3), industrial (4) and white collar unions (5, 6) were not satisfactory amid the complexity of modern industry. Many unionists pressed for a union structure based on industry (7), though not all agreed that this was the solution (8).

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