Unite History Volume 2 1932-1945: The Transport and General Workers' Union Tgwu: 'no Turning Back', the Road to War and Welfare Seifert Roger
Unite History Volume 2 1932-1945: The Transport and General Workers' Union Tgwu: 'no Turning Back', the Road to War and Welfare Seifert Roger This is the second volume on the history of the Transport…
Specifikacia Unite History Volume 2 1932-1945: The Transport and General Workers' Union Tgwu: 'no Turning Back', the Road to War and Welfare Seifert Roger
Unite History Volume 2 1932-1945: The Transport and General Workers' Union Tgwu: 'no Turning Back', the Road to War and Welfare Seifert Roger
This is the second volume on the history of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), covering the period 1932 to 1945. The union lost members, struggled to hold its activists together, and split politically between communists and their allies and the right-wing labour leadership of Bevin. In 1931, when the economic slump created mass unemployment, the TGWU was a large rambling union.
By the late 1930s, an armament-inspired boom allowed the TGWU to negotiate industry-wide formal agreements in many of its strongholds - docks, passenger and commercial road transport, and general labourers. This spilled over to the struggle of the unemployed, the role of the state, and attitudes to the growth of fascism at home and abroad. These deals favoured the weak but held back the strong such as the London bus workers who staged strikes based on rank-and-file organisation.
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