British Trade Unions

Two seminal titles on British trade unions have just been published in a paperback edition:

Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman and John McIlroy (eds), The Post-War Compromise: British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1945-64, Merlin, 2007, £18.95, ISBN 97808503666013

Table of Contents

List of Tables      vii
List of Abbreviations      viii
Contributors      xiii

Introduction to the Paperback Edition      
Reflections on British Trade Unions and Industrial Relations      xiv
John McIlroy

Preface to the 1999 Edition      xli

Introduction: Approaching Post-War Trade Unionism       1
John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman

PART ONE Overviews, 1945-79

1      The Role of Industrial Correspondents       23
      Geoffrey Goodman

2      Making Trade Unionists: the Politics of Pedagogy, 1945-79       37
      John McIlroy

PART TWO Survey

3      The Post-War Compromise: Mapping Industrial Politics,1945-64        69
      Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, John McIlroy

PART THREE Case Studies, 1945-64

4      'Shut Your Gob!': the Trade Unions and the Labour Party       117
      David Howell

5      The Trades Union Congress in the International Labour Movement      145
      Anthony Carew

6      Cold War Politics: Communism and Anti-Communism in the Trade Unions      168
      Richard Stevens

7      Social Democracy and Anti-Communism: Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations in the Early Post-War Period      192
      John Kelly

8      The Shop Floor Politics of Productivity: Work, Power and Authority Relations in British Engineering, c.1945-57      227
      Alan McKinlay and Joseph Melling

9      'The Most Serious Crisis since 1926': the Engineering and Shipbuilding Strikes of 1957
      Nina Fishman

10      'Spearhead of the Movement?' The 1958 London Busworkers' strike, the TUC and rank Cousins      268
      Nina Fishman

11      Democracy and Trade Unionism on the Docks      293
Jim Phillips

Afterword       311
Eric Hobsbawm

Index      317

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John McIlroy, Nina Fishman and Alan Campbell (eds) The High Tide of British Trade Unionism: Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1964-79, Merlin Press, 2007, £18.95, ISBN 9780850366021

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Contributors

Introduction to the Paperback Edition:
Reflections on British Trade Unions and Industrial Relations      xv
John McIlroy

Preface to the 1999 Edition      xli

Introduction: Approaching Post-War Trade Unionism      1
John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman

PART ONE Overviews, 1945-79

1      Sociology, Class and Male Manual Work Cultures      23
Mike Savage

2      Women in the Labour Market and in the Unions       43
Chris Wrigley

3      Complex Encounters: Trade Unions, Immigration and Racism      70
Ken Lunn

PART TWO Survey

4      The High Tide of Trade Unionism: Mapping Industrial Politics, 1964-79      93
John McIlroy and Alan Campbell

PART THREE Case Studies, 1964-79

5      The Labour Party and the Trade Unions      133Andrew Thorpe

6      The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions      151Andrew Taylor

7      'What Are We Here For?' George Woodcock and Trade Union Reform      187Robert Taylor

8      Notes on the Communist Party and Industrial Politics      216John McIlroy

9      'Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned': the Trotskyists and the Trade Unions      259
John McIlroy

10      How Workers on the Clyde Gained the Capacity for Class Struggle: the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In, 1971-2      297John Foster and Charles Woolfson

11      'Glorious Summer', 1972: the High Tide of Rank and File Militancy      326
Dave Lyddon

Afterword: What Went Wrong?       353
Richard Hyman

Index      365