The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions, 1933-45Scolar Press, 1995 - 380 Seiten This is a pathbreaking book, essential reading for students of interwar political and social history. Previous histories of the period have underestimated the crucial role which Communists played in trade union organisation from top to bottom. Despite its relatively small size the Communist Party occupied a strategic place in the trade union movement: the leaders of the movement, notably Ernest Bevin, refused to acknowledge this at the time. Thanks to her extensive research and numerous interviews, and to the 'opening of the books' of the Communist Part, Nina Fishman has been able to uncover a fascinating story, one which official Communist historians have never told, and which other historians could only recount in fragments. The main protagonists are the Communist Party General Seretary, Harry Pollitt, and the Editor of the Daily Worker, Johnny Campbell. The book brings to vivid life the work of activists on the shop floor and in the coalmines during the Depression and the Second World War. The book includes the first comprehensive analysis of Communist activity in key sectors of the British economy, notably in engineering shop stewards' movements and among London busmen. It concludes with an authoritative review of Communists' part in the British war economy and a vigorous challenge to the conventional wisdom about the effect of Communist Party changes of line on the war on activists' abilities to incite and lead strikes. |
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... ASSNC meeting in September decided not to call a strike . A flurry of vague militant rhetoric camouflaged the volte ... ASSNC meeting postponed any decision on strike action for a month , stating that time was required to make ...
... ASSNC meeting in September decided not to call a strike . A flurry of vague militant rhetoric camouflaged the volte ... ASSNC meeting postponed any decision on strike action for a month , stating that time was required to make ...
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Nina Fishman. frame manufacture . Zinkin's claim that the ASSNC was the vital ingredient for success in aircraft militancy was being disproved . The aircraft ballot and the campaign promoting it in the summer of 1936 proved to be the ...
Nina Fishman. frame manufacture . Zinkin's claim that the ASSNC was the vital ingredient for success in aircraft militancy was being disproved . The aircraft ballot and the campaign promoting it in the summer of 1936 proved to be the ...
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... ASSNC meetings failed to attend this time in view of the AEU Executive's recent threats of expul- sions . New Propellor's leader referred to the breach obliquely when it justified the ASSNC's decision to hold a strike ballot , which it ...
... ASSNC meetings failed to attend this time in view of the AEU Executive's recent threats of expul- sions . New Propellor's leader referred to the breach obliquely when it justified the ASSNC's decision to hold a strike ballot , which it ...
Inhalt
Practical Reality | 107 |
Fighting the War on Two Fronts | 251 |
The Shopfloor War Economy 19391945 | 284 |
Urheberrecht | |
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accepted action activity aircraft appeared ASSNC August battle became become Bevin branch British busmen campaign collective Comintern Communist Party conference Congress continued Convention Council CPGB Daily Worker delegates demands developed District Committee economic struggle elected employers engineering established evidently Executive factory February fight Fishman forces gained Government Harworth Horner important increased industrial inside interest Interview issue January joined Labour lead leaders leadership London loyalism March mass meeting membership MFGB militant miners move movement Nevertheless observed October officials organisation organization Party activists Party Centre Party members Party's political Pollitt and Campbell position practical pressure production Propellor Rank and File rank-and-file recruiting remained reported result revolutionary Secretary September shop stewards shopfloor South Wales stewards strike success TGWU tion trade union union activists united front unofficial vote wages West Young Zinkin
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