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There are 27 books in this booklist
£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745345222 | ISBN 10: 0745345220
The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organising' in the union movement today.
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£5.95 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780993224737 | ISBN 10: 0993224733
We Are No Dirty Shirkers is the fourth publication by the Mary Quaile Club. The common theme to the articles is women challenging power and authority.
Mary Quaile, Manchester Irish Trade Unionist, was one of the most well-known trade union ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781804290149 | ISBN 10: 1804290149
The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970s.
In 1973 a group of North Wales building workers were arrested for picketing-related offences during the first and only national b ... more
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£21.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526155979 | ISBN 10: 1526155974
In British political discourse the idea that in the 1970s trade unions 'ran the country' has become a truism, a folk mythology invoked against the twin perils of socialism and strikes. But who exactly wielded power in Britain's workplaces and on what ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629638324 | ISBN 10: 1629638323
In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: †... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780264448 | ISBN 10: 1780264445
An old union rep, Joe, and his granddaughter, Arushi, spend a few pleasant days together going over the history of the labour movement. Over tea and sandwiches in his studio they consider the whole wide sweep and points of connection throughout histo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780264257 | ISBN 10: 1780264259
Trade union education is in the doldrums. It generally lacks modern ways of teaching and is full of outdated content and avoids history, economics and politics.
This book demonstrates clearly that what is delivered in trade union education, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780264271 | ISBN 10: 1780264275
A collection of plays born from the great struggles of the Trade Union movement.
Characters from Tolpuddle to Trico, from the early struggles for organisation to the recent struggles to save the youth service, speak out in the dozen plays co ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780552172158 | ISBN 10: 0552172154
Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016
From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an e ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780954207755 | ISBN 10: 0954207750
Dockers set the pace for all the gains in wages and conditions during the 1940s and 50s. Most of their battles, against their bosses, the government and sometimes their own union, were led by rank and file committees. Harry Constable was one of their ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781526100290 | ISBN 10: 1526100290
Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation. This biography focuses on his leadership of the RMT union, examining and exposing a number of popular myths created about him by political opponents. Using the schema of ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781526113948 | ISBN 10: 1526113945
This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of musicians across the UK's music industries for this ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910448946 | ISBN 10: 191044894x
Grunwick was the strike that changed the rules of the game.
It changed the way the unions thought about race, about their own core values, and about the best way to organise among the new immigrant communities coming to Britain in the 1970s. ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465354 | ISBN 10: 1608465357
Women banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives. Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras recounts the history and growth of this vital movement and sh ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745336602 | ISBN 10: 0745336604
Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21.
Drawing principally on primary sources, Bell brings to lig ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784783006 | ISBN 10: 1784783005
The decline of the American union movement – and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor.
Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the ... more
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£5.95 (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993224706 | ISBN 10: 0993224709
Bernadette Hyland interviews nine women from the North of England (including our own Mandy!) who have been active in some of the most important political campaigns of the last forty years, including trade unionism, Women's Liberation, anti-racism, th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262574 | ISBN 10: 1780262574
Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work. This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusio ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683255 | ISBN 10: 1781683255
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century — and perhaps for the last forty years — and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846942549 | ISBN 10: 1846942543
This book concerns the projects and processes of sex worker unionisation and more widely forms of sex worker self-interest representation. Since the late 1980s, sex workers have unionised themselves as collective associations of workers in thei ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905192649 | ISBN 10: 1905192649
"For two months in the autumn of 1910 hundreds of women chainmakers in the Black Country struck against their employers and won a minimum wage which doubled their incomes. Women who had no vote, who were largely illiterate, who worked 54-hour weeks f ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780974412481 | ISBN 10: 0974412481
Labor songs have long pervaded workers’ culture in the United States, beginning in the colonial period and running into the 21st century. Labor unions published songbooks, labor schools encouraged singing, and radical organizations used songs about u ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781583671887 | ISBN 10: 1583671889
Embedded With Organized Labor describes how union members have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past. The author has produced a provocative series of essays — an unusual exerci ... more
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£18.95 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780850366013 | ISBN 10: 0850366011
This multifaceted text, written by authors from a range of disciplines, focuses on the politics of trade unionism - not only unions' relations with political parties and the state but also on the politics of workplace conflict and industrial action.& ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954207731 | ISBN 10: 0954207734
Des Warren was one of the pickets jailed at Shrewsbury following the national building workers strike of 1972. His trial on conspiracy charges was part of the attempt by the Tory government of the day to destroy basic trade union rights. The incoming ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780745315294 | ISBN 10: 0745315291
Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism. Recent years have seen great changes in the trade union mo ... more
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£15.99 paperback (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780862325718 | ISBN 10: 0862325714
This book by three Argentinian authors traces the history of Latin America's oldest - and for many years its largest - working class. After outlining its mid-19th century origins in migration from overseas and internal proletarianization, the authors ... more
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