Labnet: Book Ann.: Two seminal titles on British Trade Unions in Paperback Edition

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From: Campbell, Alan [mailto:qx03 at liverpool.ac.uk] 

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					133
	Andrew Thorpe 

6	The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions					151
	Andrew Taylor

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

8	Notes on the Communist Party and Industrial Politics				216
	John 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			297
	John 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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