ABSTRACT

This brilliant analysis, first published in 1923, predicted the development of shop floor bargaining and explains how attitudes, doubts and fears have remained relatively fixed yet open to various pressures. Most of all, it shows why employers extended recognition to work place unionism in the crucial years of 1917-19. This title will be of interest to students and scholars of labour history.

chapter Chapter I|4 pages

Introductory

chapter Chapter II|15 pages

Workshop Organization before the War

chapter Chapter III|6 pages

Workshop Organization before the War continued

chapter Chapter IV|12 pages

The Rise of the Workers’ Committees

chapter Chapter V|10 pages

The War-Time Shop Steward and his Work

chapter Chapter VI|9 pages

The Shop Stewards and Dilution

chapter Chapter VII|9 pages

Payment by Results in the Workshops

chapter Chapter VIII|10 pages

Shop Stewards and ‘Recognition’

chapter Chapter IX|9 pages

Shop Stewards—‘Official’ and ‘Unofficial’

chapter Chapter X|11 pages

The Aims of the Workers’ Committees

chapter Chapter XI|8 pages

Politics in the Workshop Movement

chapter Chapter XII|11 pages

Movements Analogous to the Workshop Movement

chapter Chapter XIII|9 pages

Workshop Organization under the Whitley Report

chapter Chapter XIV|6 pages

The Workshop Movement and the End of the War

chapter Chapter XV|9 pages

The Possibilities of Workshop Organization