Irving Richter

Political Purpose in Trade Unions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1973. In this study of trade union political activity in the period since 1945, the author demolishes much of the original rhetoric and inherited wisdom to provide an alternative insight on the entire subject of unions in politics. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of history and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781138327313
• ISBN-10: 113832731X
• Artikelnr.: 69943950

Autorenporträt

Irving Richter

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction 2. The Amalgamated Engineering Union: Its Historic
Relationship to Trade Union Political Action 3. The Engineers' Sponsoring
of MPs, 1950-1965 4. Measuring Grass Roots Commitment and Activity 5.
Political Action for Non-political Purposes 6. Political Work of the AEU
under the Labour Government, 1964-1966 7. The Trade Union Group of the
Parliamentary Labour Party: Its Make-up and Philosophy 8. Functioning of
the Trade Union Group, 1954-1966 9. The Transport and General Workers'
Union (T & GWU) 10. Association of Supervisory Staffs and Technicians
(ASSET) 11. The American Unions' Political Purpose and Methodology 12.
Summary and Conclusions 13. Epilogue: Based on Events in Britain Since
1967; Appendices; Index