[PDF] Trade Unions And Revolution eBook

Author : James Hinton
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1975
Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
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The British Communist Party and the founding of the National Minority Movement.

Author : Gus Tyler
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Labor unions
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Historical account of the labour movement in the USA - covers economic implications and political aspects, the role of trade unions in respect of automation and full employment, collective bargaining practices, trade union membership, Black connections with trade unions, etc. Bibliography pp. 259 to 271.

Author : Hèla Yousfi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315313596

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This book traces the role of the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labour Union) during Tunisia’s 2011 revolution and the transition period that ensued – Tunisia being the Arab country where trade unionism was the strongest and most influential in shaping the outcomes of the uprising. The UGTT; From its role as the cornerstone of the nationalist movement in the colonial era, has always had a key place in Tunisian politics: not so much a labour union but as an organisation that has always linked social struggles to political and national demands. Examining the role played by the UGTT in Tunisia's revolution and more generally in the restructuring of the Tunisian political arena during the three years following the popular uprising. This book asks searching questions such as; how did UGTT interact with the popular uprising that led to the departure of Ben Ali? What was the role played by the UGTT in the "political transition" leading to the adoption on January 26, 2014 of the first democratic constitution in the country’s history? How successful was the UGTT in neutralizing the risk of self- implosion caused by the different political and social crises? And what are the challenges that the UGTT faces in the new political landscape? This volume will be of key reading interest to scholars and researchers of social movements, labour movements, organizational studies, political transitions and Arab revolutions and also likely to be of interest to practitioners especially among activists, unionists and advocates within civil society.

Author : Ralph Darlington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608463305

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Traces the entwined international legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement. --From publisher description.

Author : Thomas Taylor Hammond
Publisher : Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Examines Lenin's writing on the relationship between trade unions and the Communist party and on the relation between reform and revolution to better understand the theories and principles underlying Communist tactics in the trade union movement in the United States.

Author : Rob Sewell
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
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Category : Political Science
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There are many narrative histories of the struggles of British workers. However, Rob Sewell's book is different. This book is aimed especially at class-conscious workers who are seeking to escape from the ills of the capitalist system, that has embroiled the world in a quagmire of wars, poverty and suffering. This history of trade unions is particularly relevant at the present time. After a long period of stagnation, the fresh winds of the class struggle are beginning to blow. Rob Sewell's book was written precisely with these new forces in mind. The British labour movement is the oldest in the world. More than two hundred years ago, the pioneers of the movement created illegal revolutionary trade unions in the face of the most terrible violence and repression. In the course of the nineteenth century they built trade unions of the downtrodden unskilled workers - those with "blistered hands and the unshorn chins," as Feargus O'Connor called them. Finally, they established a mass party of Labour based on the trade unions, breaking the monopoly of the Tories and Liberals. In the stormy years following the Russian Revolution they engaged in ferocious class battles, culminating in the General Strike of 1926. Nor did the achievements of the British trade union movement cease with the Depression and the Second World War. The post-war upswing served to strengthen the working class and heal the scars of the inter-war period. By the time of the industrial tidal wave of the early 1970s, they drove a Tory government from power, after turning Edward Heath's anti-trade union laws into a dead letter. Later, the miners, the traditional vanguard of the British working class, waged an epic year-long struggle in 1984-85 against the juggernaut of Thatcherism. They could have succeeded, had the rightwing Labour and trade union leaders not abandoned them and left them isolated. The book contains vital lessons and is essential reading for today's worker militants.

Author : Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2023-07
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ISBN : 9781914143830

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The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions was written in 1906 by Polish-born revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. It brilliantly captures the fundamental lessons from the experience of mass workers' strikes and their role in the 1905 Russian Revolution. Luxemburg lived in a world in crisis - one characterised by the fast approach of the First World War - and in an era when revolutionary struggles and ideas broke out internationally. Now, over a century later, capitalism is lunging deeper into a crisis of mammoth economic, political, social and ecological proportions. The need for mass strikes that can spill over into revolution is now existential. In this short book, Luxemburg shows how strikes call into question the relationship between the working class and the employing class, how political and economic demands fuse in the course of such strikes, and how they can start to challenge the conservative approach of the trade union leaders. Her book is as relevant as ever in hel