Why Join a Trade Union?

Jo Phillips

• Editorial: Biteback Publishing
• Año: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781849542760
• Categoría: Économie
• Categoría: Économie du travail

The Labour Party was built on them; Margaret Thatcher set out to destroy them. Trades unions, who needs them? The answer is quite simply, anyone who goes to work and who cares about pay & conditions, equal rights, safety and training (or so the trades unions themselves would tell you). Others may call them wreckers and bullies, who just want a fight with the bosses. In a world of portfolio jobs and economic austerity, will people need unions even more for protection or have they had their day along with sheepskin coats and picket lines?

Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• A marriage of inconvenience
• The case against
• The case for
• Can’t see the join?
• Back to the future
• Smokestacks to motherboards
• Left far behind
• Fear and loathing
• A different class
• Life on Mars
• Consumed with anger
• Hate figures 1: Maggie, Maggie, Maggie
• Hate figures 2: fat cats in flat caps
• Mr Gordon Taylor: an interlude
• Mr Adam Crozier: another interlude
• The way of the working world
• Genesis of the unions
• Long ago and Pharaoh way
• TIGMOO: yet another interlude
• Good news! Millions dead!
• Trouble at t’mill
• Give us a break
• It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t Captain Swing
• Top of the Charters
• An everyday story of country folk
• Strike a light OR Light a strike
• Rise and fall
• Meet the activists
• Division of labour
• Don’t be left behind, all right?
• The TUC
• Sisters aren’t doing it
• Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde aka Brenda
• Billy and Arthur
• The Falklands, part two
• Don’t pick that scab!
• Requiem for the picket line
• Pickets, my arse
• Coming second
• Socialist Workers plc
• And now for something a bit different
• The General Strike
• When in Rome
• Political strikes
• Now is the winter of our discontent…
• The reverse strike: a cunning trick
• Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
• My Lords, Ladies and Comrades…
• A load of old ballots
• From hurdles to the high jump
• Snapshot of a dispute
• Just our Bill
• Boring stuff
• You can always get what you want
• From closed to closed down
• The closed shop: a musical interlude
• Buy one collective bargain, get one free
• Money, money, money (it’s a rich man’s world)
• I fought the law and the law won
• You’re not wanted any more
• The hour has come
• Victims of hate
• Elf and fairy stories
• Inhuman resources
• Labour pains
• Hard-pressed
• Kiss my arse
• Of baggage, banners and brass bands
• As dead as an industrial correspondent
• An end to cloth caps
• Soap and chocolate
• Can’t join, shan’t join
• Lord, bless this union. Please
• ALSO BY JO PHILLIPS AND DAVID SEYMOUR
• Copyright