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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…

The Early English Trade Unions: Documents from The Home Office Papers in The Public Record Office

Comparatively Little is known about the history of the English Trade unions before the repel of combination laws in 1824, because they were illegal, and therefore underground organization. The home office paper in the public record office constitutes…

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…