Why Join a Trade Union?
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Why Join a Trade Union?

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Why Join a Trade Union?

About this book

The Labour Party was built on them; Margaret Thatcher set out to destroy them. Trades unions, who needs them? The answer is quite simply, anyone who goes to work and who cares about pay & conditions, equal rights, safety and training (or so the trades unions themselves would tell you). Others may call them wreckers and bullies, who just want a fight with the bosses. In a world of portfolio jobs and economic austerity, will people need unions even more for protection or have they had their day along with sheepskin coats and picket lines?

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Information

Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781849540681
eBook ISBN
9781849542760
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Labour Economics
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Preface
  5. A marriage of inconvenience
  6. The case against
  7. The case for
  8. Can’t see the join?
  9. Back to the future
  10. Smokestacks to motherboards
  11. Left far behind
  12. Fear and loathing
  13. A different class
  14. Life on Mars
  15. Consumed with anger
  16. Hate figures 1: Maggie, Maggie, Maggie
  17. Hate figures 2: fat cats in flat caps
  18. Mr Gordon Taylor: an interlude
  19. Mr Adam Crozier: another interlude
  20. The way of the working world
  21. Genesis of the unions
  22. Long ago and Pharaoh way
  23. TIGMOO: yet another interlude
  24. Good news! Millions dead!
  25. Trouble at t’mill
  26. Give us a break
  27. It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t Captain Swing
  28. Top of the Charters
  29. An everyday story of country folk
  30. Strike a light OR Light a strike
  31. Rise and fall
  32. Meet the activists
  33. Division of labour
  34. Don’t be left behind, all right?
  35. The TUC
  36. Sisters aren’t doing it
  37. Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde aka Brenda
  38. Billy and Arthur
  39. The Falklands, part two
  40. Don’t pick that scab!
  41. Requiem for the picket line
  42. Pickets, my arse
  43. Coming second
  44. Socialist Workers plc
  45. And now for something a bit different
  46. The General Strike
  47. When in Rome
  48. Political strikes
  49. Now is the winter of our discontent…
  50. The reverse strike: a cunning trick
  51. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
  52. My Lords, Ladies and Comrades…
  53. A load of old ballots
  54. From hurdles to the high jump
  55. Snapshot of a dispute
  56. Just our Bill
  57. Boring stuff
  58. You can always get what you want
  59. From closed to closed down
  60. The closed shop: a musical interlude
  61. Buy one collective bargain, get one free
  62. Money, money, money (it’s a rich man’s world)
  63. I fought the law and the law won
  64. You’re not wanted any more
  65. The hour has come
  66. Victims of hate
  67. Elf and fairy stories
  68. Inhuman resources
  69. Labour pains
  70. Hard-pressed
  71. Kiss my arse
  72. Of baggage, banners and brass bands
  73. As dead as an industrial correspondent
  74. An end to cloth caps
  75. Soap and chocolate
  76. Can’t join, shan’t join
  77. Lord, bless this union. Please
  78. ALSO BY JO PHILLIPS AND DAVID SEYMOUR
  79. Copyright