British Trade Unions, 1707-1918, Part II, Volume 8: 1912-1918 [Hardcover]

Features 8 volumes of British Trade Unions 1707-1918, reproduced in facsimile, showing the many significant pamphlets, essays, articles and letters from this important period in British history. Presented chronologically, the texts re-map the history of the trade union, contextualising its development from inception through to the 20th Century.Features 8 volumes of British Trade Unions 1707-1918, reproduced in facsimile, showing the many significant pamphlets, essays, articles and letters from this important period in British historyVolume 8: 1912-1918 The immediate pre-war years brought some of the most bitter strikes and from many directions the language was that of the class war. The need for workers' collaboration in the war effort presented unions with huge challenges, such as dilution of skilled labour with unskilled workers, but also with great opportunities for advancing their cause, and generated a vigorous debate over what trade unionism ought to be in the post-war world. Ben Tillett, 'London Transport Workers' Strike', The Dockers' Record (1912); Guy Bowman, Syndicalism: Its Basis, Methods, and Ultimate Aim. Compiled by Norman Young from a lecture by Guy Bowman, 6 April 1913, in Co-operative Hall, Little Newport Street, W (1913); The Greater Unionism. With Special Reference to Mining, Building, Engineering and Shipbuilding, Transport and General Labour, and to the position of the General Federation of Trade Unions (1913); TUC Parliamentary Committee. Dublin Dispute. Report of Special Conference held at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London EC (1913); Trades Union (No.2) Bill. TUC Parliamentary Committee. Report of Proceedings of the National Conference held in the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London, EC (1913); W M Geldart, The Present Law of Trade Disputes and Trade Unions (1914); George R Shann, 'Scientific Management', The Workers' Union Record (1914); 'Taylor's System of Scientific Management', The Workers' Union Record, (1914); 'Taylor's ls!