Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries, 1850-1939 / edited by J. A. Jowitt and A. J. McIvor

London : Routledge, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 239 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Employers and Employers Organisations; 1. Cotton Employers Organisations and Labour Relations, 1890-1939 Arthur McIvor 2. Pragmatism vs. Principle: Cotton Employers and the Origins of an Industrial Relations System Andrew Bullen 3. Protecting the Interests of the Trade: Wool Textile Employers Organisations in the 1920s Irene Magrath 4. Cotton Employers and Industrial Welfare between the Wars Steve Jones; Part Two: Trade Unions and Labour; 5. The Retardation of Trade Unionism in the Yorkshire Worsted Textile Industry Tony Jowitt 6. Lancashire Cotton Trade Unionism in the Inter-war Years Alan Fowler 7. Work, Wages and Industrial Relations in Cotton Finishing, 1880-1914 Arthur McIvor; Part Three: Women in Textiles; 8. Skill and the Sexual Division of Labour in the West Riding Textile Industry, 1850-1914 Deirdre Busfield 9. Women and Industrial Militancy: The 1875 Heavy Woollen Dispute Marie Bottomley 10. ""Well Fitted for Females."" Women in the Macclesfield Silk Industry Jill Norris 11. Women and Work in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1890-1939 Michael Savage; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index. Subjects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. Labor Movement. Labor Party. Labour Unions. Political History. Textile Industry. Employers' associations Great Britain History. Textile industry Great Britain History. Textile workers Labor unions Great Britain History. Women textile workers Great Britain History. Employers' associations England History 19th century. Employers' associations England History 20th century. Textile workers Labor unions England History 19th century. Textile workers Labor unions England History 20th century. Textile industry Great Britain. Textile industry England History. Industrial relations England History. Employers' associations Great Britain History. Textile industry Great Britain History. Labor unions Textile workers Great Britain History. Women textile workers Great Britain History. Textile workers England History. Employers' associations Great Britain History.