name on f.f.e.p., a well preserved secondhand copy.

Trade Unions and society: the struggle for acceptance 1850-1880

FRASER, W. Hamish

Allen& Unwin

This famous and comprehensive study presents the causes and effects of the 'mass market' revolution between 1850 and 1914, which led to our 'modern' world. The changes were unprecedented, extraordinary, democratic, and wide-ranging. They affected everyone. They still do so. This is a fascinating and wide-ranging account of the evolution of the 'mass' market consumer. And of the evolution of the retailing and leisure industries, with the enormous changes they made in the daily lives of the people. The author draws on much detailed contemporary economic and social data - including detailed family budgets - to demonstrate what happened. Professor Hamish Fraser shows that the standard of living of the British population rose in the late nineteenth-century as better health care and the new supplies of better foods, competitive prices, and new distribution methods had a dramatic impact on living standards, and on the extent of life itself. What had been luxuries became necessities, too; what had been scarce or exclusive - such as many exotic fresh fruits from abroad - became commonly available. Professor Fraser examines the social and economic causes and effects of this ongoing 'revolution'. For the first time most British people were able to buy better food and clothing. They gained access to better health care, and to many new goods and services, including new leisure opportunities - in many spectator and participatory sports, in seaside trips, and in such things as tickets for the popular music hall. The demand in the 'mass' market had an important impact on living standards, and with its effect on retailing and production. New multiples and department stores offered more efficient distribution. Competitive pricing was the 'norm'. Widespread advertising was introduced. The advent of canning and of refrigeration - together with cheaper and faster rail and ship transport - brought many new products to Britain to meet new 'mass' demand. The impact of rapid American and Germany industrial growth impacted on what was provided, and at what for many were affordable prices.

The coming of the mass market, 1850-1914

Business & Money

Economics

Archon Books

This new history of trade unions offers the most concise and up-to-date account of three hundred years of trade union development, from the earliest documented attempts at collective action by working people in the eighteenth century through to the very different world of "New Unionism" and "New Labour" at the end of the millennium. The author treats trade unionism as an interaction of workers, employers and the state as they all faced changing economic and social expectations, changing markets and changing political perceptions. The book brings together the fruits of recent research which has moved away from studying the internal organization of trade unions to setting trade union developments alongside managerial demands, employers' organizations, technological developments and the role of the state.

A History of British Trade Unionism 1700-1998 (British Studies Series)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Coming of the Mass Market, 1850-1914

Palgrave HE UK

<p>This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest documented attempts at collective action by working people in the eighteenth century through to the very different world of `New Unionism' and `New Labour'.</p>

A History of British Trade Unionism 1700–1998 (British Studies Series, 54)

Red Globe Press

This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest documented attempts at collective action by working people in the eighteenth century through to the very different world of `New Unionism' and `New Labour'.

A History of British Trade Unionism 1700–1998 (British Studies Series, 28)

 The Glasgow of today, with its opulent City Chambers and sandstone tenements, was at least in part the creation of the Victorians and Edwardians. The second volume of this three-part history of a great city covers the years 183O-l9l2, when in many respects Glasgow was at its apogee. A central theme of this book is the unprecedented economic growth of Glasgow, and the social problems which followed it. The contributors cover the building of the Victorian city and its industrial and commercial development; Glasgow's population explosion, and the City authorities' response to the disease and tenement slums which it brought; the development of the middle and working classes, their political mobilization and civic government; and the Victorian "Glasgow of the imagination", the city whose architecture receives so much praise today. Throughout, the book introduces the personalities who made the city a place of world stature and a lynchpin of the British empire. 

Glasgow: Volume II: 1830-1912

History

Maver, Irene

Europe

Manchester University Press

Alexander Campbell and the Sea

Biographies & Memoirs

Holyoake Books

Conflict and class: Scottish workers, 1700-1838

John Donald Publishers Ltd.

People and Society in Scotland: 1830-1914

Americas

John Donald

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