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The History of Trade Unionism

Webb, Sidney

Webb, Beatrice Potter

History

Franklin Classics

English Local Government: The Story of the King's Highway

My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an exceptionally able person, with a zest for observation, a knack for pointed comment, and a habit of self-examination - all of which gifts she put to good account in the private diary she kept all her life and in this brilliant volume of autobiography which she based on that diary. It tells the story of a craft and a creed, of a withdrawn but talented girl, growing up in a prosperous household, who turned to social investigation and social reform, moving between the two starkly contrasted worlds of West End smart society and East End squalor. She served a hard apprenticeship, as a woman as well as a professional worker, and in a new introduction to this edition Norman MacKenzie describes the severe personal stresses which lay behind her life of dedication to social improvement, particularly her frustrated passion for Joseph Chamberlain and the troubled courtship which preceded her marriage to Sidney Webb. This volume ends on the eve of that marriage, when she was about to begin her famous and astonishingly productive collaboration with her husband. As historians, publicists and Fabian politicians the Webbs were pioneers of the modern age. The ensuring volume, which chronicles their mature career and was appropriately titled Our Partnership, is also published by the Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science.

My Apprenticeship

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Ams Pr Inc

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... of the Lancashire Co-operative cotton factories, the inference is clear. The individualist theory was abandoned as unworkable. Clear-sighted and honestminded Lancashire folk awakened from their dream of "each man his own master" to find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. While government by the workers proved a potent cause of commercial failure, commercial success promptly destroyed this peculiar form of government, together with the allied method of profit-sharing, by substituting (with or without the workers' leave) the outside capitalist for the working shareholder. Joint-stock association--its compass and its limits -- is not my theme. The Working-Class Limiteds, which centre in Oldham, and are scattered throughout the Lancashire valleys, are neither associations of producers, nor associations of consumers, and belong therefore as little to the democratic as to the individualist form of Co-operative industry. But despite the fact that, like all other joint-stock companies, they are organized exclusively for the benefit of the capitalist, these working-class associations have materially forwarded the democratisation of industry by practice and precept. It is needless to point out the untold value to trade organizations of the commercial and technical knowledge gained by astute Trade Unionists as shareholders and directors, combined with the lever afforded to trade union pressure by the open publication and criticism of the profits and loss accounts of various concerns. The admirable organization of the cotton spinners of Lancashire, the sliding scale of the Oldham list, whereby the improvement, or "speeding up " of machinery is equally advantageous to the worker and to the employer, the common action in face of common enemies, the...

The Co-Operative Movement in Great Britain

Business & Money

Economics

Gower Pub.Co.

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English Local Government From the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: The Parish and the County

Reference

Legare Street Press

Bibliography of Road-Making and Roads in the United Kingdom

Ballen, Dorothy

Europe

BiblioLife

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Peddie, Robert Alexander

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