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UNITE History Volume 4 (1960-1974) - The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): 'The Great Tradition of Independent Working Class Power' (Paperback)
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UNITE History Volume 4 (1960-1974) - The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): 'The Great Tradition of Independent Working Class Power' (Paperback)
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Loot Price R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
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The fourteen years between 1960 and-1974 saw the trade union and
labour movement transformed. In 1959 Labour had been beaten at the
polls for the third successive time - with political commentators
claiming that class politics in Britain were dead. By 1974 a
mobilised trade union movement had forced a Conservative government
from office, compelled the abandonment of its anti-trade union
legislation, released imprisoned dockers from Pentonville prison
and twice provided the miners with the solidarity required for
victory. The climax in 1974 was Labour victory in the 1974 general
election with a programme calling for an irreversible shift of
wealth and power in favour of working people. This volume of the
TGWU's centenary history documents the role of Britain's biggest
union in this transformation. Two remarkable general secretaries,
Frank Cousins and Jack Jones, provided leadership. However, it was
the TGWU's members who achieved it: the women and men in the
factories, transport depots and docks, who forged the new class
unity. The book records their voices. It brings together their
struggles from Clydeside, Dublin and Belfast to Longbridge,
Dagenham and Heathrow - and it does so with a wealth of new
material revealing the tactics of government and employers and the
complexity of the struggles for sex equality and against racial
discrimination that helped cement the new class unity.
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