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Things Scottish Blackwell’S Rare Books 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ
Blackwell’s Rare Books things scottish Blackwell’s Rare Books 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ Direct Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 333555 Switchboard: +44 (0) 1865 792792 Email: [email protected] Fax: +44 (0) 1865 794143 www.blackwells.co.uk/rarebooks Our premises are on the second floor of the main Blackwell’s bookshop at 48-51 Broad Street, one of the largest and best known in the world, housing over 200,000 new book titles, covering every subject, discipline and interest. The bookshop is in the centre of the city, opposite the Bodleian Library and Sheldonian Theatre, and next door to the Weston Library, with on street parking close by. Hours: Monday–Saturday 9am to 6pm. (Tuesday 9:30am to 6pm.) Our website contains listings of our stock with full descriptions and photographs, along with links to PDF copies of previous catalogues, and full details for contacting us with enquiries about buying or selling rare books. All books subject to prior sale. Staff Andrew Hunter - Antiquarian, Sciences. Email: [email protected] Henry Gott - Modern First Editions, Private Press & Illustrated Books. Email: [email protected] Sian Wainwright - General, Music, Travel. Email: [email protected] Susan Theobald - Photography and catalogue design. Email: [email protected] Front cover illustration: 42 Rear cover illustration: 12 1. (Agriculture. Ireland.) THE DUBLIN SOCIETY’S WEEKLY OBSERVATIONS for the Advancement of Agriculture and Manufactures. Glasgow: Printed and Sold by Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1756, -
Apprentice Strikes in Twentieth Century UK Engineering and Shipbuilding*
Apprentice strikes in twentieth century UK engineering and shipbuilding* Paul Ryan Management Centre King’s College London November 2004 * Earlier versions of this paper were presented to the International Conference on the European History of Vocational Education and Training, University of Florence, the ESRC Seminar on Historical Developments, Aims and Values of VET, University of Westminster, and the annual conference of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association. I would like to thank Alan McKinlay and David Lyddon for their generous assistance, and Lucy Delap, Alan MacFarlane, Brian Peat, David Raffe, Alistair Reid and Keith Snell for comments and suggestions; the Engineering Employers’ Federation and the Department of Education and Skills for access to unpublished information; the staff of the Modern Records Centre, Warwick, the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, the Caird Library, Greenwich, and the Public Record Office, Kew, for assistance with archive materials; and the Nuffield Foundation and King’s College, Cambridge for financial support. 2 Abstract Between 1910 and 1970, apprentices in the engineering and shipbuilding industries launched nine strike movements, concentrated in Scotland and Lancashire. On average, the disputes lasted for more than five weeks, drawing in more than 15,000 young people for nearly two weeks apiece. Although the disputes were in essence unofficial, they complemented sector-wide negotiations by union officials. Two interpretations are considered: a political-social-cultural one, emphasising political motivation and youth socialisation, and an economics-industrial relations one, emphasising collective action and conflicting economic interests. Both interpretations prove relevant, with qualified priority to the economics-IR one. The apprentices’ actions influenced economic outcomes, including pay structures and training incentives, and thereby contributed to the decline of apprenticeship. -
Khrushchev's Zig-Zag Course Reflects Crisis
Khrushchev’s Zig-Zag Course Reflects Crisis t h e MILITANT By Harry Ring PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE JULY 17 — A series of obviously improvised and Vol. XXI - No. 29 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, JULY 22, 1957 PRICE 10c contradictory moves during the past week marked the drive of Nikita Khrushchev to consolidate his victory over the four bureaucrats whose downfall was announced July 3. unless they can achieve a meas The present zig - zag course ure of popular support. There illuminates the powerful oppos fore concessions must be prom ing pressures underlying the now ised and even granted. The acute crisis of the ruling bureau vanquished bureaucrats must be cracy. made the scapegoats for the Eisenhower Seen Cooking Up After the death of the crimes committed against the “supreme arbiter,” Stalin, the people by the entire bureaucracy. bureaucracy had to rule through The winner is driven to try to the vehicle of “collective leader play both “hard cop” and “ soft ship.” But wracked by the inner cop” at the very same time. conflict of special privileges and TWISTS AND TURNS material interests, the ruling caste is driven along the road of Last week they were trying to Rights Bill Deal with Racists throwing up a single new execute the twists and turns supreme authority. This process demanded by this situation. On is expressed in the uninterrupted July 10 the Moscow radio in Putting the Pressure On Congress power struggles of the rival formed the world that Malenkov, cliques within the bureaucracy. who had been ousted from the Liberals in Senate Seek to Patch Up Party Presidium for “anti-party A NEW STAGE activity,” had been made man The unique feature of this in ager of a hydroelectric plant in ternecine warfare is the context remote East Kazakhstan and that Rotten Compromise with Southerners in which it takes place— the new the other ousted chieftains, stage of the Russian revolution. -
Heroes of Peace Profiles of the Scottish Peace Campaigners Who Opposed the First World War
Heroes of Peace Profiles of the Scottish peace campaigners who opposed the First World War a paper from the Introduction The coming year will see many attempts to interpret the First World War as a ‘just’ war with the emphasis on the heroic sacrifice of troops in the face of an evil enemy. No-one is questioning the bravery or the sacrifice although the introduction of conscription sixteen months after the start of the war meant that many of the men who fought did not do so from choice and once in the armed forces they had to obey orders or be shot. Even many of the volunteers in the early stages of the war signed up on the assumption that it would all be over in a few months with few casualties. We want to ensure that there is an alternative – and we believe more valid – interpretation of the events of a century ago made available to the public. This was a war in which around ten million young men were killed on the battlefield in four years, about 120,000 of them were Scottish. Proportionately Scotland suffered the highest number of war dead apart from Serbia and Turkey. It was described as the ‘war to end wars’ but instead it created the conditions for the rise of Hitler and the Second World War just twenty years later as a result of the very harsh terms imposed on Germany and the determination to humiliate the losing states. It also contributed to some of the current problems in the Middle East since, as part of the war settlement, Britain and France took ownership of large parts of the Ottoman Empire and divided up the territory with no reference to the identities and interests of the people. -
We Can Be Heroes Just for One Day
ASLEFJOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2019 The magazine of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen We can be heroes just for one day Standing by the wall I will be king & you, you will be queen And the guns shot above our heads For ever and ever And the shame was on the other side. We can beat them... The train drivers ’ Inside: Palestine; Pride; Michael Green; and Tolpuddle 2019 union since 1880 GS Mick Whelan ASLEFJOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2019 Chaos and confusion The magazine of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen E HAVE never been in the W game of having preferences in contractual negotiations for franchises, even having different standards of Mick: ‘It’s the old cap industrial relations and collar process’ within certain groups. Our issue is, and always has been, with the model. Never has this been clearer than now, when we might have expected 10 a period of calm after Mr Grayling going and Mr 12 Shapps taking over. Alas, that is not the case. Confusion reigns. News The number of questions we have had over what has been announced continues to grow. l Rail fares rise again; and steam train blues 4 Apparently, Southeastern is to be run again as l Railway Workers’ Centenary Service; and 5 the conditions aren’t right; Stagecoach and Arriva Off the Rails: Patrick Flanery; Bev Quist; can take legal action over being excluded. Then Kim Darroch; and Christopher Meyer First Trenitalia wins the former Virgin bid because it meets Williams – a report we have not yet had – Cyril Power’s Tube train pictures on show 6 l and contains element of the old cap and collar l Kevin Lindsay hails a victory in Scotland 7 process that means the franchisee cannot lose. -
Durham E-Theses
Durham E-Theses English Folk under the Red Flag: The Impact of Alan Bush's `Workers' Music' on 20th Century Britain's Left-Wing Music Scene ROBINSON, ALICE,MERIEL How to cite: ROBINSON, ALICE,MERIEL (2021) English Folk under the Red Flag: The Impact of Alan Bush's `Workers' Music' on 20th Century Britain's Left-Wing Music Scene , Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13924/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 English Folk under the Red Flag: The Impact of Alan Bush’s ‘Workers’ Music’ on 20 th Century Britain’s Left-Wing Music Scene Alice Robinson Abstract Workers’ music: songs to fight injustice, inequality and establish the rights of the working classes. This was a new, radical genre of music which communist composer, Alan Bush, envisioned in 1930s Britain. -
SLR I15 March April 03.Indd
scottishleftreview comment Issue 15 March/April 2003 A journal of the left in Scotland brought about since the formation of the t is one of those questions that the partial-democrats Scottish Parliament in July 1999 Imock, but it has never been more crucial; what is your vote for? Too much of our political culture in Britain Contents (although this is changing in Scotland) still sees a vote Comment ...............................................................2 as a weapon of last resort. Democracy, for the partial- democrat, is about giving legitimacy to what was going Vote for us ..............................................................4 to happen anyway. If what was going to happen anyway becomes just too much for the public to stomach (or if Bill Butler, Linda Fabiani, Donald Gorrie, Tommy Sheridan, they just tire of the incumbents or, on a rare occasion, Robin Harper are actually enthusiastic about an alternative choice) then End of the affair .....................................................8 they can invoke their right of veto and bring in the next lot. Tommy Sheppard, Dorothy Grace Elder And then it is back to business as before. Three million uses for a second vote ..................11 Blair is the partial-democrat par excellence. There are David Miller two ways in which this is easily recognisable. The first, More parties, more choice?.................................14 and by far the most obvious, is the manner in which he Isobel Lindsay views international democracy. In Blair’s world view, the If voting changed anything...................................16 purpose of the United Nations is not to make a reasoned, debated, democratic decision but to give legitimacy to the Robin McAlpine actions of the powerful. -
Sunrise in Korea, Sunset in Britain: a Shipbuilding Comparison
Copyright By Dan Patrick McWiggins 2013 The Dissertation Committee for Dan Patrick McWiggins certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: SUNRISE IN THE EAST, SUNSET IN THE WEST: How the Korean and British Shipbuilding Industries Changed Places in the 20 th Century Committee: __________________________ William Roger Louis, Supervisor ____________________________ Gail Minault ____________________________ Toyin Falola ____________________________ Mark Metzler ____________________________ Robert Oppenheim SUNRISE IN THE EAST, SUNSET IN THE WEST: How the Korean and British Shipbuilding Industries Changed Places in the 20 th Century by Dan Patrick McWiggins, B.A., M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin December 2013 DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to the memories of Walt W. and Elspeth Rostow Their intellectual brilliance was exceeded only by their kindness. It was an honor to know them and a privilege to be taught by them. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This dissertation has been a long time in the making and it would not have been possible without the help of many people around the world. I am particularly indebted to Professor William Roger Louis, who has been incredibly patient with me over the eight years it has taken to get this written. Regular work weeks of 60+ hours for years on end made finding the time to advance this project much more difficult than I anticipated. Professor Louis never lost faith that I would complete this project and his encouragement inspired me to keep going even when other commitments made completion look well-nigh impossible. -