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Previous histories of the British trade unions have tended to treat the working class as a single entity. This gave workers' identity a coherence and dignity, but it also made them separate from and excluded from the rest of British society. In this highly original and absorbing new book Alastair Reid discards this entire model, preferring to see 'working people' as integral to British society as a whole. On this reading trade unions and their changing fortunes become a crucial element in any attempt to understand Britain's history and not something to be confined to some specialised 'labour history' or 'industrial history'.
Trade unions have grown and shrunk depending on the skill with which they have used their position but also depending on all kinds of external factors. Looking both at individual workers and their fates and at the often vast organisations that have represented them, Alastair Reid, in this fundamentally important book, shows how unions have throughout the modern era always been a crucial element in British life and that all governments have-whether they like it or not-had to develop policies to deal with them.
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The development of trade unionism is presented in cycles of growth followed by periods of instability. Each period of instability sees trade unions getting to grips with fundamental problems of recruitment and organization and, in so far as these are resolved, lays the basis for the next period of steady growth. Reid argues that although the unions are currently weak and marginalized, the likelihood is that this will be a temporary phase.
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Alastair J. Reid is Fellow and Lecturer at Girton College, Cambridge.
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0713997583
- ISBN 13 9780713997583
- BindingPaperback
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