Understanding Trade Unions: Yesterday & Today

Understanding Trade Unions: Yesterday & Today

Unions affect us all, no matter where we live and work. This book tells us all about them, their past and present About how they began, Their Turbulent years when joining one could cost you your life, their legendary leader like Jim Larkin and the array of problems facing them. Lockouts, riots and harsh living conditions of the working people at the beginning of this century will become vivid as labour history unfolds, Students find out what it means to be in a union- what a worker’s rights and duties are in and out of the workplace, how union function, and how modern industrial relations systems work. Interesting discussions, topics on social and personal issues, role playing situations, case studies and challenging questions at the end of every section help students towards genuinely understanding trade unions and industrial relations.

Gerry McNamara, Kevin Williams, and Des West.

Elo Publications, Irish Congress of Trade unions

1994

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