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Cover of British Trade Unions, 1707-1918, Part II

British Trade Unions, 1707-1918, Part II

Edited by W. Hamish Fraser

  • Published: 2008
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781851968312
  • Set ISBN: 9781851968312

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1911–1918

The strikes of 1911 seemed to bring a renewed faith in the value of organization. Union membership began a rise that was to continue through until 1920: from two million in 1906 to over four million by the outbreak of war and to 6.5 million in 1918. Women workers too were caught up: from a quarter of million in 1907, female union membership rose to 1,200,000 in 1918. There were bitter strikes of women at the Singer Sewing machine factory in Clydebank in 1911 in protest at the effects of new management methods. In this strike there was support from male-dominated unions, but this was not always the case, especially if women were seen to be a threat to male control of particular jobs.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By W. Hamish Fraser
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    ‘London Transport Workers’ Strike’, Dockers’ Record (September 1912) By Benjamin Tillett
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    Syndicalism: Its Basis, Methods, and Ultimate Aim. Compiled by Norman Young fr om a Lecture Delivered by Guy Bowman, 6 April 1913, in Co-operative Hall, Little Newport Street, W. [1913] By Guy Bowman
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    The Greater Unionism. With Special Reference to Mining, Building, Engineering and Shipbuilding, Transport and General Labour, and to the position of the General Federation of Trade Unions [1913] By G. D. H. Cole; W. Mellor
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    Dublin Dispute. Report of Special Conference Held at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London E.C., Tuesday 9 December 1913 [1913] By Trades Union Congress Parliamentary Committee
  • The Present Law of Trade Disputes and Trade Unions [1914] By W. M. Geldart
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      Prelims
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      I
      The Trade Disputes Act, 1906
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      II
      The Trade Union Act, 1913
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    ‘Scientific Management’, Workers’ Union Record (February 1914) By George R. Shann
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    ‘Taylor’s System of Scientific Management. Second Article’, Workers’ Union Record (April 1914) By George R. Shann
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    ‘Taylor’s System of Scientific Management. Third Article’, Workers’ Union Record (April 1914) By George R. Shann
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    ‘Scientific Management and Trade Unionism’, Workers’ Union Record (May 1914) By George R. Shann
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    ‘Scientific Management. The Skilled Man and the Unskilled’, Workers’ Union Record (June 1914) By George R. Shann
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    ‘Scientific Management. Our Attitude towards It’, Workers’ Union Record (July 1914) By George R. Shann
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    ‘The Call for Munitions’, Workers’ Union Record (July 1915) By J. Beard
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    ‘Munitions of War Act’, Workers’ Union Record (August 1915) By J. Beard
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    ‘Betrayal of the Labourers at Woolwich Arsenal’, Workers’ Union Record (September 1915)
  • Compulsory Military Service and Industrial Conscription. What they Mean to the Workers [1915] By War Emergency Workers’ National Committee
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      War Energency: National Workers' Committee
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      Compulsory Military Service and Industrial Conscription:: What they mean to the Workers
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    The Price of Dilution of Labour. An Open Letter to the Members of the A. S. E Conference, 30th December 1915 (1915) By G. D. H. Cole; W. Mellor
  • One Union for Metal, Engineering & Shipbuilding Workers By W. F. Watson
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      Prelims
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      One Union for Metal, Engineering, and Shipbuilding Workers
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    ‘First Triennial Conference. Full Report of the Proceedings in Birmingham’, Workers’ Union Record (July 1916)
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    Report of the Special Committee Appointed by the Annual Conference of the Party, Held at Manchester, in January, 1917, to Inquire into and Report upon the Circumstances which Resulted in the Deportation in March, 1916, of David Kirkwood and Other Workmen Employed in Munition Factories in the Clyde District [1917] By The Labour Party
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    Labour in Chains. The Peril of Industrial Conscription (1917) By Philip Snowden
  • The Significance & Possibilities, National & International, for Industry, Commerce, Finance, Politics and Trade Unionism of The Triple Alliance of Industrial Socialism (1917) By G. R. Carter
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      Prelims
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      The Triple Industrial Alliance,: Its National And Trade-Union Significance
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    Trade Unionism at the Cross Roads (1917) By W. MeLaine
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    An Appeal to Trade Unionists [c. 1917] By National Guilds
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    ‘Report on Leeds Conference, June, 1917’, Dockers’ Record (June 1917) By Benjamin Tillett
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    ‘Industrial versus Craft Unions’, Labour Year Book 1916 (1916) By A. Bellamy
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    ‘Craft versus Industrial Unions’, Labour Year Book 1916 (1916) By Fred Bramley
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    ‘The Future of Women in Industry’, Labour Year Book 1916 (1916) By Margaret G. Bondfield
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    The Restoration of Trade Union Customs aft er the War. A Statement and Analysis of the Government Guarantees (1916) By Joint Committee on Labour Problems aft er the War, Advisory Committee on the Restoration of Trade Union Conditions
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    Labour After the War: First Report [1916] By War Emergency Workers’ National Committee
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    ‘Memorandum of Conference between the Engineering Employers’ Federation and Stream Engine Makers’ Society [et al.]’, Workers’ Union Record (January 1918)
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    The Workers’ Committee: An Outline of Its Principles and Structure (1918) By J. T. Murphy
  • Compromise or Independence? An Examination of the Whitley Report with a Plea for the Rejection of the Proposals for Joint Standing Industrial Councils [1918] By J. T. Murphy
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      Prelims
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      Compromise or Independence?: An Examination of the Whitley Report
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    Back Matter