ABSTRACT
First published in 1988. This collection of essays examines aspects of labour and industrial relations history in the textiles sector of Northern England during the mature phase of industrialisation before World War One and the period of retrenchment during the interwar economic recession. There are chapters on wool, worsted, silk, cotton spinning and weaving, and cotton finishing. The volume includes contributions by historians interested in employers’ organisations and management strategies, labour, trade union and women’s history. As such it provides a broader framework in which relationships between capital and labour are analysed. The book also incorporates some of the recent research on particularly neglected areas of social history, most notably on women workers and on the industrial relations policies of employers in textiles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|26 pages
Employers’ and Employers’ Organisations
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
Pragmatism vs. Principle: Cotton Employers and the Origins of an Industrial Relations System
chapter Chapter 3|20 pages
Protecting the Interests of the Trade: Wool Textile Employers’ Organisations in the 1920s
section Section II|23 pages
Trade Unions and Labour
chapter Chapter 5|23 pages
The Retardation of Trade Unionism in the Yorkshire Worsted Textile Industry
section Section III|18 pages
Women in Textiles