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In Defence of Trade Unionism

Based on a lecture to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Institute of Employment Rights given by Jim Mortimer. Opening address was given by John Hendy.

Unions, Management, and The Public

A post-war US collection of essays and discussions organised around topics related to labour and management relations. The material is from both classic and contemporary US and European sources.

The Case for a Flour Tariff

A work from former UCC president Alfred O’ Rahilly, a political writer and supported of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. O’Rahilly led Irish delegations to the International Labour Organization conferences in 1924, 1925 and 1932, and took on conciliatory…

Trade Unions in British Politics: The First 250 Years

How did British trade unions become the most politically influential in the western world? Have they exercised an arbitrary power? How effective have legal constraints been on their activities? Will the 1990s see the marginalization of the unions, or…