Author: Tony Cliff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Marxism and the Trade Union Struggle: The General,Strike of 1926

Author: Richard Hyman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: David North
Publisher: Mehring Books
ISBN: 1875639292
Category : Labor unions and communism
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Virtually everything Marx and Engels ever wrote on labor strikes and trade unions has been collected in this volume for the first time. It includes vivid, often eyewitness accounts of many of the greatest strikes and labor struggles of the last century. This original and valuable collection challenges the prevailing assumption that Marx and Engels cared little for trade unions and their role in the transition to socialism or that they had little practical involvement with unions. Lapides illuminates the immense part personally played by Marx and Engels in helping to establish the modern labor movement. Covering the period 1844-1894, the book features graphic and moving portrayals of contemporary labor stuggles, candid personal views of various labor leaders, biting polemics against socialist rivals, and eloquent passages. Lapides provides an introduction that places the excerpts in historical and theoretical context.

Author: Thomas Taylor Hammond
Publisher: Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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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: John Anthony Moses
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Presenting a study of the theoretical ideas which great socialist thinkers developed on trade unionism, its place in the development of class consciousness and its relations with capitalism and political goals, this book also traces the evolution of Catholic trade-union theory.

Author: A. Lozovskiĭ
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Rob Sewell
Publisher: Wellred Books
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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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: Solomon Abramovich Drizdo
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Historical source book comprising two pamphlets on the communist political party, the trade unions, and the use of mass strike tactics to achieve social change in Germany and Russia.