This volume focuses on labour history in Britain, but brings in comparative material on the Continent, in particular inter-war Germany. Special attention is given to wages and living and working conditions in the 19th century, to Robert Owen and Co-operation, and to the modern trade union movement and its attempts to keep up the interests of its members in the fluctuating conditions of the late 19th and earlier 20th centuries. The author defends the notion that wage-earners have common interests and frequently share common experiences, and that their organisations have both a strictly economic aspect (trade unions) and a wider political dimension. The profound changes which the labour organisations underwent in the 19th and 20th centuries are a major concern of these essays.
| ISBN: | 9780860787938 |
| Publication date: | 22nd April 1999 |
| Author: | Sidney Pollard |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 313 pages |
| Series: | Variorum Collected Studies Series |
| Genres: |
Economics Social and cultural history Social and political philosophy Management and management techniques European history Politics and government History and Archaeology |