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This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of musicians across the UK's music industries for this period and its role to date has largely been ignored by historians of the music profession, the music industries and trade unions. This book remedies that oversight, providing fresh insight to musicians' working lives, the industries in which they work and wider British social life. It explores a history of confrontation, coercion and compromise played out across the nation's studios, performance spaces and airwaves. -- .

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9781784991326

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'Players' work time is a lovingly detailed account of one of Britain's most interesting, enduring and idiosyncratic trade unions. Williamson and Cloonan have made an important contribution to the social history of music.' Simon Frith, Tovey Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh 'Players' work time does not just tell the history of the Musicians' Union in vivid and fascinating detail; it also documents the dramatic changes that have been experienced by musicians. It reveals too how important the MU has been to shaping the industries in which those musicians work. This book is key reading for anyone who hopes to understand the business of making music.' John Street, Professor of Politics and author of Music and Politics, University of East Anglia -- .

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John Williamson is Research Associate in Music at the University of Glasgow Martin Cloonan is Professor of Popular Music Politics at the University of Glasgow

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