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Twilight robbery : low-paid workers in Britain today
- Title
- Twilight robbery : low-paid workers in Britain today / Philip Pearson.
- Author
- Pearson, Philip.
- Publication
- London : Pluto Press, 1985.
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- Description
- 141 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Essay critically reviewing wage policies encouraging low incomes through wage cuts and abolition of minimum wages as a means to reduce unemployment in the UK - based on interview surveys, covers employees attitudes and trade union attitudes; reports on trade unionization efforts of nonunionized workers in the clothing industry, catering and Hotel industry (incl. Cleaners threats to wage councils and working conditions; pinpoints shortcomings of collective bargaining for woman workers and black unskilled workers. Reference, statistical tables.
- Subject
- Working class > Great Britain
- Labor unions > Great Britain
- Wage-price policy > Great Britain
- Labor unions
- Wage-price policy
- Working class
- wage policy
- low income
- wage cut
- minimum wage
- unemployment
- interview
- survey
- employees attitude
- trade union attitude
- trade unionization
- nonunionized workers
- clothing industry
- catering
- hotel industry
- cleaner
- wage council
- working conditions
- collective bargaining
- women workers
- Blacks
- unskilled workers
- statistical table
- politique des salaires
- faible revenu
- baisse de salaire
- salaire minimum
- chômage
- enquête
- attitude des salariés
- attitude syndicale
- syndicalisation
- travailleur non syndiqué
- industrie du vêtement
- restauration
- nettoyeur
- conseil de salaire
- conditions de travail
- négociation collective
- travailleuses
- travailleur non qualifié
- tableau statistique
- política salarial
- bajos ingresos
- disminución salarial
- salario mínimo
- desempleo
- entrevista
- encuesta
- actitud de los trabajadores
- actitud sindical
- sindicalización
- trabajador no sindicalizado
- industria del vestido
- restauración
- personal de limpieza
- consejo de salarios
- condiciones de trabajo
- negociación colectiva
- trabajadoras
- trabajador no calificado
- cuadros estadísticos
- Great Britain
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
- Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
- Genre/Form
- reference.
- référence bibliographique.
- referencia.
- Note
- Cover title: Twilight robbery : trade unions and low paid workers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [138]-141.
- ISBN
- 0861046471
- 9780861046478
- OCLC
- ocm12933436
- 12933436
- SCSB-631637
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library