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This study surveys the development of British trade unionism during the period of its transformation from a narrowly based, craft centered movement to a mass movement embracing all grade of workers, regardless of skills or training.

Dr Lovell…

British Trade Unions once so influential, are now on the defensive. In the face of world economic recession and mass unemployment, their industrial power has been eroded, their membership has declined and industrial action has increasingly become…

At a time of severe crisis in the Labour Movement, there has never been a greater need for rethinking the aims and methods of socialism. Ken Coates and Tony Topham, who have been tireless in their arguments within the Labour Movement about its…

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…

Analysis, based on a literature survey, of the impact of social stratification on patterns of trade unionization, particularly among nonmanual workers, in the UK and other western countries - covers the relationship between social class and trade…

This book offers a new perspective on the relationship between trade unions and the state and on industrial conflict in the period of 1910-21. Using a range of primary sources, it explores the constraints placed by industrial conflict on both state…

This book is intended as a brief incursion into the theoretical and practical implementation of trade unions' behavior and government action in the contemporary situation. It is more concerned with raising questions than with answering them but…

What are the key features of Unionized Labour Markets? This important book analyses the nature of contracts between unions and management, and evaluates the result for wages, employment, and productivity. It synthesizes the major strands of research…

The Rise of Irish Trade Unions which covers the story of Irish Trade Unionism, north and south, to the present day. To his meticulously researched study, first published in 1972, Andrew Boyd has added a chapter bringing the history of Irish Unions up…

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at CII Cork Region Luncheon, Arbutus Lodge Hotel

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Finnpap Conference

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland meeting at the Training Centre, Smithwicks Brewery, Kilkenny

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Careers in Industry Conference

Introduction by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Confederation House

Comments by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Irish Council of the European Movement Conference at Industry Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield