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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Trades Union Congress"”.
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Policy into practice: is union learning representative activity meeting the expectations of its principal stakeholders?
The TUC (Trades Union Congress) proposed that union learning representatives could play a role in developing a new culture of lifelong learning at the workplace as the health and safety representative movement has had a major impact on making work environments safer. This is the most extensive …
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Between God and Mammon : politics, class conflict, and the southern Irish state, 1922-45
… between British-based and Irish-based unions, led to the split in the Irish Labour Party and the Irish Trades Union Congress. The unique scope of archival research utilized in the dissertation, as well as the focus on the role of the Catholic Church and political anticommunism on both …
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Construction, conformity and control : the taming of the Daily Herald 1921-30
… - jointly owned by the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress. It seperates an earlier incarnation of independent left radicalism from a subsequent identity as a commercial daily tied to an official political line. It is a period of commercial and competitive failure - the 500,000 …
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A trade union perspective on industrial policy regimes in France, Germany, Denmark, China, Singapore and South Korea: What lessons for the United Kingdom?
… while I worked as a Senior Policy Officer at the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Agents within capitalism include trade unions, but the literature on industrial policy does not discuss the institutional role of union practitioners as experts, contributing to the implementation of industrial policy …
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Interest groups and policy-making: the welfare state, 1942-1964
… in the 1940s meant that employers and trade unions became more involved in the administration than in the provision of social services. The process entailed a greater role for the Trades Union Congress, the British Employers’ Confederation and the Federation of British Industries in the …
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Under one banner: The General Federation of Trade Unions c. 1899-1926
… 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 arbitration committee for …
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Popular Attitudes to Taxation in Britain, c.1945- 1992
… two main political parties, the civil service, Trades Union Congress, and Federation of British Industries, later Confederation of British Industry, in a series of case studies. These focus on moments when tax was a particularly high-profile issue: the 1949 budget and 1950 election; the 1959 …
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The State and medical care in Britain: political processes and the structuring of the National Health Service
… representing the Labour party and trade unions, and recently released documents of the Ministry of Health and the Coalition and Labour Cabinets, the interaction of the interests with the two governments and with each other is traced, and the reconciliation by the state of the health …
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Voluntary Organisations and the 1981–6 Greater London Council
This dissertation answers the question of how 1981–6 Greater London Council (GLC) used grants to voluntary groups. In doing so, it makes visible part of an unnoticed history of how London was remade in the 1980s and creates an introduction for future studies of both the GLC and the organisations it …