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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Labour History"”.
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The London gasworks : a technical, commercial and labour history to 1914
This thesis is a history of the gas industry down to 1914 with special reference to London. Part One deals with the industry's origins and its technical and business history and traces the development from the discovery of coal gas manufacture at the end of the seventeenth century to its first …
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Returning to the rand revolt: centering settler colonialism and racial capitalism in labour history
… and orientation of class struggle between white labour and capital in the early 20th Century, South Africa.
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Precarious printers : labour, technology & material culture at the NSW Government Printing Office 1959-1989
… influence of neo-liberal economics and gender-labour tensions – made for an unsettled institution. In mid-1989 the state government abruptly closed down the Gov and 700 people lost their jobs. This thesis operates on two levels: it offers both an historical and a methodological contribution to …
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The University of the Witwatersrand History Workshop and radical South African historical scholarship in the 1970's and 1980's
The thesis examines the History Workshop at the University of the University of the Witwatersrand in the context of radical South African historical scholarship. Not only is the History Workshop shown to mirror developments in radical scholarship but it is seen to guide and stimulate particular …
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<i>‘There is only one P in Perth - And, it stands for Pullars!'</i>: the Labour, Trade-Union, and Co-operative Movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922
… recent years a number of studies within Scottish labour history have added to the discipline’s understanding and knowledge of the history of the labour and trade-union movements of several Scottish towns/cities hitherto neglected by a historiography traditionally dominated by research into the …
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Work in Motion: Labour and Aesthetic Production in the Animated Film Industry
… through its self-reflexive engagement with labour. I track the entanglement between animated images and image production through three key inflection points in animation history: beginning with early animation’s pre-industrial roots; continuing through animation’s industrial rationalisation; …
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The history of British Trotskyism to 1949
… before 1949, even in the restricted area of the labour movement during that time, Trotskyism maintained activity and conditioned in part the behaviour of other movements and individuals who are thought fit subjects for historical enquiry. There is therefore a job of recovery to be done in order …
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Christian brethren, union brother: a study of the relationship between religious nonconformity and trade union leadership, in the life of the coal mining deputies' official, W. T. Miller (1880-1963)
… but later form of religous sectarianism and labour movement leadership. To this end, the thesis employs and explores a biographical method of studying the 'social meaning' of working class religious attachment in labour history. This draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, …
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Il mondo del lavoro a Taiwan. La nascita della classe operaia e la formazione del movimento dei lavoratori
… industralization and of the formation of its labour movement. The research question was based on the evidence that the labour movement has been weak. The intention of the research was to understand why, by focusing the attention on the fragmentation of labour produced by the Taiwanese export …
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
… of nurses in Irish mental hospitals (labour history), the professionalisation of staff and advances made in the treatment of mental illnesses (the rhetoric of mental healthcare in twentieth-century Ireland).
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Gender, Bolshevism & the Popular Press in Britain, 1916-1921
… of British scholarship pertaining to media history, labour history and gender studies. Apart from Gramsci, this thesis has been influenced by the gendered scholarship of Billie Melman, Nicoletta Gullace, Joane Nagel, the social studies of Ezequiel Adamovsky and Klaus Theweleit and the media …
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Industrial relations in the road passenger transport industry-a political-economic analysis.
… industrial relations is the development of the labour-process. The labour process changes with the introduction of new technology (electrified trams and mechanised buses), the concentration and centralisation of ownership, the decline of competition, changing market position, municipal and state …
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Glasgow's Red Clydeside and the politics of poetry
… period occupies an important place in Scottish labour history, and remains powerfully relevant for left-wing political activists in the present, the poetry of the period has yet to be considered critically by researchers in either the fields of history or literary studies. This thesis collects …
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Social Movements and Resistance to Neoliberalism in America, 1979-2000
… network of movement actors, including labour unionists, feminists, environmentalists, indigenous activists, and others who were engaged in political campaigns within the United States and beyond its borders. Collectively, these movements highlighted the implications of neoliberal …
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Under one banner: The General Federation of Trade Unions c. 1899-1926
This thesis is a study of the early history of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) from their creation in 1899 until the events surrounding the 1926 general strike. The GFTU were created by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to bring together all trade unions under one banner by acting as an …
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The South Wales Miners 1964-1985
… the most militant sections of the British labour movement, with South Wales very much in the forefront of this. This thesis examines both how and why the south Wales miners held this prominent 'vanguard' role.<br/><br/>My research explores the history of the south Wales miners between 1964 …
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Of Molluscs and Men: Pearling Labour and Environments in the Indian Ocean 1880-1925
… Empire. By combining methods from environmental history, the history of science, and labour history, this dissertation aims to write a history below the water line. An eclectic combination of sources, including scientific diagrams, local poetry, oyster specimens, and undersea maps, allows new …
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Impact of institutional diversity on unions and NGO's efforts to represent and articulate farm workers' grievances: case study of the 2012 Western Cape farm workers strike and protest action
… a disconcerting pattern in South Africa's recent labour history, a violent strike and protests gripped the De Doorns area in the Hex Valley River Valley of Western Cape Province in the late months of 2012 and early 2013. Literature on collective action and mobilisation shows that many of these …
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‘When is dismissal an appropriate sanction for misconduct? and who has the last say?’
… of dismissals, for misconduct. South African Labour history has been marred by confusion and inconsistency in relation to the test to be adopted in determining the fairness of dismissals. This has been so, because there have been two dominant schools of thought, one referred to as the ‘own …
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A Comparative History of Gender and Factory Labour in Ottoman Bursa and Colonial Bombay, c.1850-1910
… and technology shaped employment patterns, labour processes and politics in silk factories in Bursa and cotton mills in Bombay between 1850 and 1910. The project undermines the notion that women's labour was incidental to the development of large-scale factory enterprise in Ottoman and …
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