1st Edition
The Railwaymen Volume 2: The Beeching Era and After The History of the National Union of Railwaymen
Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half of the 20th Century on the people who maintained British railway services and reveals the change which took place in the union to which most of them belonged: the National Union of Railwaymen (now part of the National Union of Rail and Maritime Transport Workers: RMT). The union’s reaction to the Beeching closures of the 1960s and the Industrial Relations Act of 1971, its policies on the closed shop, inter-union rivalries, representation in Parliament and the constitution of the Labour Party are treated authoritatively by the author who had access to all the union’s records.
1. British Transport Developments Since 1945 2. The Railway Workforce 3. The Organisation of the Union 4. The Beeching Era 5. Pay and Efficiency I 6. Pay and Efficiency II – And After 7. Negotiating Under the Industrial Relations Act, 1971-2 8. London Transport 9. The NUR in Buses, Docks, Hotels and Catering 10. Conditions of Service 11. Inter-Union Relations 12. The NUR and Politics 13. The NUR and Education.
Biography
Philip Bagwell was an eminent British labour and transport historian whose work was described as 'magisterial'.
Review of the original edition of The Railwaymen:
‘Dr. Bagwell… has produced a very readable account of the activities of the NUR (National Union of Railwaymen in the post-war period…’ Derek H. Aldcroft, The Economic History Review, 35 (3).
