Titlebook: Blind Workers against Charity; The National League Matthias Reiss Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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A Changing Relationship: The League and Charity in the Post-War Era,res had peaked in 1945 when a record of 7,401 men and women were paying fees. The number of branches had reached its highest figure ever in the following year when 109 local committees were recognised by the League’s Central Office.. From then on, however, the League began to shrink. In the year of

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137364470Disability; Blindness; Social Movements; Protest; Welfare State; trade union; trade union movement; Britain

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978-1-349-47330-4Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92299-7tury, the League’s odds of surviving as an independent organisation for more than a hundred years had been slim. By their very definition poor people’s movements are unstable and the League was no exception. Yet the organisation was able to overcome sectional differences, internal power struggles an

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Lernpraktiken in der Unternehmensberatungtion of the claims for which they stand,’ the President of the National League of the Blind wrote in 1908.. In order to successfully compete with these other causes and bring Parliament to pass a bill which provided direct state aid for blind people outside of the framework of charity, the League ha

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Lernpraktiken in der Unternehmensberatungr limited to regulating industrial relations and it took a while before it fully developed its identity as a trade union. The League’s hostility towards charity, on the other hand, remained the one constant element in the organisation’s long history and its defining characteristic. Becoming a trade

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