A history of British trade unions between 1933 and 2000, covering key issues and controversies.

This book analyses the crucial features of unionised labour markets. The models in the book refer to labour contracts between unions and management, but the method of analysis is also applicable to non-union labour markets where workers have some market power. In this book, Alison Booth, a researcher in the field, emphasises the connection between theoretical and empirical approaches to studying unionised labour markets. She also highlights the importance of taking into account institutional differences between countries and sectors when constructing models of the unionised labour market. While the focus of the book is on the US and British unionised labour markets, the models and analytical methods are applicable to other industrialised countries with appropriate modifications.

In the third and final volume of the authoritative History of the British Trade Unions since 1889, Hugh Armstrong Clegg traces the story of the trade unions, their policies, their leaders, and their relations with government. He carefully sets his study against the economic and political background of the period, and provides a wealth of valuable detail. This is a comprehensive and dispassionate account by a leading authority on British trade unions, which will be an important source for all historians of the labor movement in Britain.

Directly relevant to student exam questions and courses, this text examines all the major themes, personalities and issues of this important period in a clear and digestible form. It is also illustrated with helpful maps, charts and diagrams

In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party.

This book revisits women’s workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women’s political identity in England between 1968 and 1985.