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Title

The right to strike : from the Trade Disputes Act 1906 to a trade union freedom bill 2006 / edited by K.D. Ewing.

Publication

Liverpool : Institute of Employment Rights, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Ewing, K. D. (Keith D.)
• Institute of Employment Rights.

Description

xviii, 310 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Tells the story of the centenary of one of the most important pieces of labour legislation ever passed by a British Parliament. Argues that the substance of the current law is far removed from the position established in 1906 and discusses in detail the proposed amendments in the Trade Union Freedom Bill.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Strikes and lockouts > History. > Great Britain
• Right to strike > Great Britain > History
• Great Britain > Economic conditions > 20th century
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century

Genre/Form

• comment.
• commentaire.
• comentario.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From the Trade Disputes Act to the Trade Union Freedom Bill / K.D. Ewing and Carolyn Jones -- Legal origins of the Trade Disputes Act. Taff Vale and the Trade Disputes Act 1906 / Graeme Lockwood -- The Belfast Butchers : Quinn v Leathem after a hundred years / John McIlroy -- The Trade Disputes Act 1906. The Trade Disputes Act of 1906 / John Saville -- The South Shields case : subverting the Trade Disputes Act 1906? / K.D. Ewing -- The Scottish case : Crofter Hand Woven Harris Tweed v Veitch / Douglas Brodie -- The 1906 Act : parliament, employers and judges. The 1906 Act : the first fifty years : industrial relations, picketing and the employers' challenge / Dave Lyddon and Paul Smith -- The 1906 Act : the second fifty years from Thomson v Deakin in 1952 to P v NASUWT in 2003 / Bob Simpson -- Judicial mystification of the law : Rookes v Barnard and the return to judicial intervention / Roger Welch -- Towards a Trade Union Freedom Act? European laws : help or hindrance? / Brian Bercusson -- British trade union rights today and the Trade Union Freedom Bill / John Hendy and Gregor Gall -- The economic case for the Trade Union Freedom Bill / Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson -- Appendix 1. The Trade Disputes Bill 1906 (the Labour Bill) -- Appendix 2. The Trade Disputes Bill 1906 (the Government Bill) -- Appendix 3. The Trade Disputes Act 1906 -- Appendix 4. Early day motion 1170 and signatures : campaign for a Trade Union Freedom Bill.

ISBN

• 9780955179549
• 0955179548

OCLC

• 79582650
• SCSB-10258799

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Harvard Library