History General Federation Trade Unions, 1899-1980

Alice Prochaska

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032394794
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000803587
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

When this book was originally published in 1982 the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) was an organisation which catered for some 40 unions with an aggregate membership of 490,000. The GFTU in the late 20th Century was a very different organisation from what its founders in 1899 hope it might become, but in both its early and later form, it holds a significant place in the history of British trade unionism. Its history, outlined in this book sheds much light on the history of labour relations and working-class organisation in this country as a whole. The book provides a framework within which the GFTU's contribution to the history of British labour in the 20th Century may be understood.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• New Preface to the 2023 Reissue of History of the General Federation of Trade Unions, 1899–1980.
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 The Beginnings of the General Federation of Trade Unions, 1890-1900
• 2 Growth: Internal Affairs, 1900-10
• 3 The General Federation in a Wider World, 1900-10
• 4 A Turbulent Decade. The Challenges of Syndicalism and War, 1910-20
• 5 International Affairs and the Exclusion of the General Federation from British Representation, 1913-22
• 6 Between the Wars
• 7 From the 1940s to the 1970s
• Appendix
• Sources and Select Bibliography
• Index