All Together Now
John Lloyd: The British Trade Union, 19 October 2000
British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics. Vol. I: The Postwar Compromise, 1945-64
edited by John McIlroy and Nina Fishman et al.
Ashgate, 335 pp., £35, January 2000,0 7546 0018 1 Show More
edited by John McIlroy and Nina Fishman et al.
Ashgate, 335 pp., £35, January 2000,
British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics. Vol. II: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79
edited by John McIlroy and Nina Fishman et al.
Ashgate, 389 pp., £35, January 2000,0 7546 0018 1 Show More
edited by John McIlroy and Nina Fishman et al.
Ashgate, 389 pp., £35, January 2000,
The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism
by Robert Taylor.
Palgrave, 299 pp., £45, September 2000,0 333 93066 5 Show More
by Robert Taylor.
Palgrave, 299 pp., £45, September 2000,
“... being closely attended to, even feared, by ministers and by the public. And it was feared. Harold Wilson’s 1964-70 and 1974-76 Governments and James Callaghan’s 1976-79 Administration spent more time cajoling, ‘standing up to’, browbeating, placating and schmoozing with union leaders than with any other group. Robert Taylor’s close account of the ... ”