LIGHT & LIBERTY
Written by John Lloyd
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
in 1990
ISBN: 0297796623
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- TRADE UNIONS
LIGHT & LIBERTY
Written by John Lloyd.
Stock no. 613336
1st.
1990.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A history of the EETPU. ISBN: 0297796623. Corners lightly bumped.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Birth of the Electrical Trades Union
- 2 The First Rule-Book: Setting the Pattern
- 3 On the Edge of Destruction, 1892-5
- 4 Back from the Brink, 1895-9
- 5 A Future that Would not Come
- 6 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
- 7 Slow Growth and Splits: Emerging from the Shadows
- 8 A Power in the Land, 1907-14
- 9 The Union at War, 1914-18
- 10 The Aftermath of War, 1919-21
- 11 Confronting Financial Disaster, Wage Reductions and Internal Schism, 1921-6
- 12 The General Strike, 1926
- 13 Coming of Age, 1927-39
- 14 Darkness Approaches
- 15 The Union at War, 1939-45
- 16 Anticipation and Disillusion, 1945-54
- 17 Communists in Control: Financial Crisis and Collective Bargaining, 1954-9
- 18 The End of the Beginning: An Opposition Emerges
- 19 Campaigning against the Communists, 1957-9
- 20 The End of the Tunnel: The 1959 General Secretary Election
- 21 Inflicting the Mortal Wound: June 1961-January 1962
- 22 Changing the Union's Structure to Change its Purpose
- 23 Contracting and Electricity Supply: Revolutionary Years, 1962-6
- 24 The ETU in the Wilson Years
- 25 The Bottom Line: Negotiations in the Modern Union
- 26 Leadership, Rules and Politics, 1970-89
- 27 The EETPU and the March to Independence
- 28 New Recruits from a New Industrial World, 1979-89