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UNITE History Volume 2 (1932-1945) - The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): 'No turning back', the road to war and welfare (Paperback)
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UNITE History Volume 2 (1932-1945) - The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): 'No turning back', the road to war and welfare (Paperback)
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This is the second volume on the history of the Transport and
General Workers' Union (TGWU), covering the period 1932 to 1945. In
1931, when the economic slump created mass unemployment, the TGWU
was a large rambling union. The union lost members, struggled to
hold its activists together, and split politically between
communists and their allies and the right-wing labour leadership of
Bevin. This spilled over to the struggle of the unemployed, the
role of the state, and attitudes to the growth of fascism at home
and abroad. By the late 1930s, an armament-inspired boom allowed
the TGWU to negotiate industry-wide formal agreements in many of
its strongholds - docks, passenger and commercial road transport,
and general labourers. These deals favoured the weak but held back
the strong such as the London bus workers who staged strikes based
on rank-and-file organisation. These were matched by local strikes
against a range of speed-up initiatives. The TGWU backed rearmament
and the war when it came. The leadership put aside its
anti-communism for the duration, and communist-inspired shop
stewards played major roles in improving war-time productivity. The
union grew and large numbers of women joined, forming their own
groups and playing an increasing role in union affairs. At the same
time the TGWU hesitantly supported liberation in the colonies. As
the war came to an end, the union supported the welfare reforms of
the Beveridge report and backed the election of a Labour
Government.
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