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  • The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions, 1933–1945

    by Nina Fishman ...
    This is a pathbreaking book, essential reading for students of interwar political and social history. Previous histories of the period have underestimated the crucial role which Communists played in trade union organisation from top to bottom. Despite its relatively small size the Communist Party occupied a strategic place in the trade union movement: the leaders of the movement, notably Ernest ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics

    The Post-war Compromise, 1945-1964

    Edited by John Mcllroy, Nina Fishman, Alan Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain. Detailing the transition of individuals who had survived in the war or had taken part in the war effort to going back a civilian life in 1945. Following the rise of the Labour party in Britain until 1964. ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics

    The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79

    Edited by John McIlroy, Nina Fishman, Alan Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999 , this book discusses trade unionism in Britain from 1964 to 1979. Detailing political change in British politics from union strikes to Thatcherism in the late 1970s and the implications that had on trade unions and industrial politics. ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–1947

    by Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman ...
    The near destruction of the coal industry and the NUM offers a timely vantage point from which to appraise their history. This book presents a collection of specially commissioned essays by leading authorities on miners' history, which challenge the stereotypical imagery of miners' solidarity and loyalty to the Labour Party. This book examines the politics of the Miners' Federation of Great ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Development of a California Research Organization

    Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

    by Nancy Beddingfield, Nina Fishman, Eva Engvall, Francesca Marassi ...
    This book tells the story of the founding and development of a remarkable research institute, primarily from the scientists' view but with enough context to validate its earned reputation as a research powerhouse. The Institute's origin as "La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation" is told by the Founders' daughter Nina Fishman. Its evolution from modest beginnings to a major research organization ... Read more

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    A History of the Labour Left

    by Simon Hannah ...
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  • Harold Wilson

    The Unprincipled Prime Minister?: A Reappraisal of Harold Wilson

    Edited by Andrew S. Crines, Kevin Hickson ...
    This year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister. He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general elections, yet, despite this monumental record, his place in Labour's history remains somewhat ... Read more

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  • The Myth Of Decline

    The Rise of Britain Since 1945

    by George L Bernstein ...
    This history of Britain since 1945 confronts two themes that have dominated British consciousness during the post-war era: the myth of decline and the pervasiveness of American influence. The political narrative is about the struggle to maintain a power that was illusory and, from 1960 on, to reverse an economic decline that was nearly as illusory. The British economy had its problems, which are ... Read more

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  • The Prime Ministers Who Never Were

    A Collection of Political Counterfactuals

    by Francis Beckett ...
    Each of these chapters in this book of political counterfactuals describes a premiership that never happened, but might easily have done had the chips fallen slightly differently. The contributors, each of them experts in political history, have asked themselves questions like: what shape would the welfare state and the cold war have taken if the Prime Minister had been Herbert Morrison instead of ... Read more

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  • The Slump

    Britain in the Great Depression

    by John Stevenson, Chris Cook ...
    'One of the most relentlessly brilliant studies of twentieth-century Britain ... these young historians have found a marvellous theme and stuck to it. Theirs is the glory!' Professor Arthur Marwick, HistoryThe 1930s - remembered as the decade of dole queues and hunger marches, mass unemployment, the means test, and the rise of fascism - also saw the development of new industries, the growth of ... Read more

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    Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues

    by Stephen Maxwell ...
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    Britain Since 1945

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