1st Edition
Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries, 1850-1939
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
Biography
J. A. Jowitt, A. J. McIvor
