Labnet: Book Ann: Two titles on British Trade Unions now in paperback

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Two seminal titles on British trade unions have just been published in a paperback edition:

Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman and John McIlroy (eds), 'The Post-War Compromise: British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1945-64', Merlin, 2007, £18.95, ISBN 97808503666013

Table of Contents

List of Tables vii
List of Abbreviations viii
Contributors xiii

Introduction to the Paperback Edition 
Reflections on British Trade Unions and Industrial Relations xiv
John McIlroy

Preface to the 1999 Edition xli

Introduction: Approaching Post-War Trade Unionism  1
John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman

PART ONE Overviews, 1945-79 

1 The Role of Industrial Correspondents  23
 Geoffrey Goodman

2 Making Trade Unionists: the Politics of Pedagogy, 1945-79
   37
 John McIlroy

PART TWO Survey

3 The Post-War Compromise: Mapping Industrial Politics,1945-64   69
 Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, John McIlroy

PART THREE Case Studies, 1945-64

4 'Shut Your Gob!': the Trade Unions and the Labour Party  117
 David Howell

5 The Trades Union Congress in the International Labour Movement 145
 Anthony Carew

6 Cold War Politics: Communism and Anti-Communism in the Trade Unions 168
 Richard Stevens 

7 Social Democracy and Anti-Communism: Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations in the Early Post-War Period 192
 John Kelly

8 The Shop Floor Politics of Productivity: Work, Power and Authority Relations in British Engineering, c.1945-57 227
 Alan McKinlay and Joseph Melling

9 'The Most Serious Crisis since 1926': the Engineering and Shipbuilding Strikes of 1957
 Nina Fishman

10 'Spearhead of the Movement?' The 1958 London Busworkers' strike, the TUC and rank Cousins 268
 Nina Fishman

11 Democracy and Trade Unionism on the Docks 293
Jim Phillips

Afterword  311
Eric Hobsbawm

Index 317

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John McIlroy, Nina Fishman and Alan Campbell (eds) 'The High Tide of British Trade Unionism: Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1964-79', Merlin Press, 2007, £18.95, ISBN 9780850366021

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Contributors

Introduction to the Paperback Edition:
Reflections on British Trade Unions and Industrial Relations xv
John McIlroy

Preface to the 1999 Edition xli

Introduction: Approaching Post-War Trade Unionism 1
John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman

PART ONE Overviews, 1945-79 

1 Sociology, Class and Male Manual Work Cultures 23
Mike Savage

2 Women in the Labour Market and in the Unions  43
Chris Wrigley

3 Complex Encounters: Trade Unions, Immigration and Racism 70
Ken Lunn

PART TWO Survey

4 The High Tide of Trade Unionism: Mapping Industrial Politics, 1964-79 93
John McIlroy and Alan Campbell

PART THREE Case Studies, 1964-79

5 The Labour Party and the Trade Unions 133Andrew Thorpe 

6 The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions 151Andrew Taylor

7 'What Are We Here For?' George Woodcock and Trade Union Reform 187Robert Taylor

8 Notes on the Communist Party and Industrial Politics 216John McIlroy

9 'Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned': the Trotskyists and the Trade Unions 259
John McIlroy

10 How Workers on the Clyde Gained the Capacity for Class Struggle: the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In, 1971-2 297John Foster and Charles Woolfson

11 'Glorious Summer', 1972: the High Tide of Rank and File Militancy 326
Dave Lyddon

Afterword: What Went Wrong?  353
Richard Hyman

Index 365


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