Industrialisation & industrial history books

Originally published in 1981, this book explains the factors which precipitated and effected changes in the major...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses the relationship between political parties and trade unions in...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1955, this book describes in a clear and concise way the nature of a Trade Union in England...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952, The Government of British Trade Unions analyses the government, in theory and in practice,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979 at a time when white-collar union membership had increased both in the public and private...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1977, this book explains the complexity of collective bargaining and discusses the nature...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952, Trade Unions quickly became a classic and went through 7 editions. It is a brief yet...  Read More >>

The authors of this volume who are trade union economists, deal critically with credit policy; plead for free trade;...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986, the 1970s and 80s saw the emergence of the ‘the new working class’ or ‘new middle...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, Trade Unions was written at a time when there was a widespread belief that Britain’s...  Read More >>

When this book was originally published in 1982 the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) was an organisation...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986, this book analyses the impact of the changing economic and political climate on trade...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs...  Read More >>

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This book explores the role of emotions in the making and remaking of the city, from the medieval to the modern...  Read More >>

Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels became the basis of Mexican society, comparing Mexico's...  Read More >>

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This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from...  Read More >>

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.  Read More >>

A concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world.  Read More >>

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In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched...  Read More >>

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This is the third volume...  Read More >>

By 1974 a mobilised trade union movement had forced a Conservative government from office, compelled the abandonment...  Read More >>

In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched...  Read More >>