Trade Unions And The Labour Movement from John Atkins

8vo., 283, [3] pages + 14 pages of advertisements Red cloth covered boards with black embossed title lettering. Some age-toning to end-papers, text clean and unmarked, top edge of pages a little dusty. Very good condition. In rare orange dust-jacket with black lettering. Age-toned and sightly rubbed with slight chipping to extremities. Good condition. The American Labor Year Book was a 20th century… Read more about this item

23 pages. Card cover. Text clean and unmarked. Chartism, industrial struggle, and the 1842 general strike in South Wales. Postage will be less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.

20 pages. Paper wrapper. Text clean and unmarked. Working class history and organisation in the engineering industry in South West Scotland. Postage will be less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.

28 pages. Paper wrapper. Text clean and unmarked. . Working class and trade union organisation in the building industry. Postage will be less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.

40 pages. Card cover with price sticker to the inside front. Short but useful account of the 1926 General Strike. Includes a 2-page bibliographical note. Postage will be less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.

52 pages, plus 7 photo illustrations. Card cover. Reprint of this brochure first published in May 1976 on the 50th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike. Based upon a reading of contemporary newspapers and contributions from persons who could give first-hand accounts of the strike in Southwark (London), including Jack Dash (19 years old at the time of the strike) and Bert… Read more about this item

IWC pamphlet no 46 16 pages. Card cover with very slight rubbing to the spine. Pages age-toned, clean and unmarked. Sets out the case for keeping open the Litton Industries' (Imperial Typewriters) factories in Hull and Leicester – focusing particularly upon the social impact in Hull that would follow the Hull plant closure. Produced by an Action Committee formed during the weekend following… Read more about this item

[2], 76, [2] pages. Card cover very slightly soiled. Internally clean and unmarked. In October 1975 an industrial dispute involving junior doctors in the UK began. It ended in January 1976 "in a mood of pessimism, yet…successful. The changes that occurred inside the medical profession prior to, and during, this dispute are the subject of this booklet." Postage will be less than the… Read more about this item

18 pages. Card cover a little age-toned. Text clean and unmarked. Less well remembered than the miners' strike of the early 1970s, the Grunwick (Brent, north London) strike demonstrated the difficulties the trade union and working-class movement faced in taking on the political and industrial forces emboldened by the Thatcher Government. Grunwick was a film / photograph processing company whose workforce was mainly… Read more about this item

First published in 1912. With a new introduction by R. Merfyn Jones. 8vo., 35, [1] pages. Card cover slightly rubbed, with remains of price sticker to front and blue biro marks to the rear. Pages age-toned but clean and unmarked. An important source document concerning the organisation of the miner's union in the South of Wales, with wider implications for the British mining… Read more about this item

First published in 1886. With a new introduction by Richard Hyman 8vo., 32 pages. Card cover slightly rubbed. Pages age-toned but clean and unmarked. Postage will be less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.

First published in 1917 by the Sheffield Workers' Committee. With a new introduction by James Hinton. 8vo., 26, [2] pages. Card cover slightly rubbed, with remains of price sticker to front. Pages age-toned but clean and unmarked. Postage will be less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.

30, [2] pages. Thick paper wrapper, slight crease marks to the spine. Internally unmarked. IWC Pamphlet no. 68 A radical pamphlet written by John Bellers (1654/5 – 1725), a Quaker, and originally published in 1695, which carries forward the ideas of the 'commonweal' or common good which contributed to the philosophy of co-operativism. Marx makes several references to it in "Capital" and referred… Read more about this item

43, [1] pages. Card cover a little dusty and age-toned. Staples with signs of rust. Prepared by Kuczynski and a study group of the Central London Branch of the Association of Scientific Workers (ASW), which was formed early in 1942, covering trade union history with special reference to the development of non-manual organization and the history of the ASW in particular. The… Read more about this item

32 pages. Paper wrapper slightly creased and age-toned. Text clean and unmarked. Written by the then Branch Secretary of the Ardsley Branch of Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF). The Ardsley Branch of ASLEF was opened on 14 October 1894. "There were no National conditions of service, rates of pay and conditions of service varied from Company to Company, and even… Read more about this item

19 un-numbered pages. With an introduction by Hodgins, Charlie and Prescott, John (later Labour MP for Hull East). Card cover somewhat dusty and age-toned. Internally clean with a slight printing smudge on 2 facing pages. On 16 May 1966, the National Union of Seamen (NUS) launched its first national strike since 1911. The strike aimed to secure higher wages and to reduce the… Read more about this item

32 pages. Card cover and text very clean and unmarked. Covers mainly the engineering industry from 1914 to the Roberts Arundel strike of 1967. Interesting content including some illustrations. Postage will be significantly less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.

15, [1] pages. Paper wrapper, age-toned and a little soiled, ink handwritten price to front. Page fore-edges a little chipped. Text clean. Written by the Marxist economic historian Maurice Dobb, this pamphlet was produced after the Soviet Union joined the Allied forces against the fascist Axis powers. A short history of Soviet trade unions post-1917. Postage will be less than the average… Read more about this item

24 pages. Paper wrapper detached and age-toned. Rust marks from staple. Pages age-toned, text clean. Half of the text is in the form of an overall introduction to the subject followed by a series of four discussions with short paragraphs of notes followed by questions either for individual study or group discussion. Each discussion section also contains recommendations for further reading. Still… Read more about this item

46 pages. Card cover, age-toned and a little dusty. Text clean and unmarked. Minor creasing to page fore-edge margins. Short preface followed by 11 articles. Postage will be less than the average cost quoted in my store listings. Over-payments will be refunded.