Industrial relations in the British printing industry: the quest for security

Abstract

UK. Historical study of labour relations in the printing industry from the middle ages to the present time - examines the evolution of collective bargaining and trade unionism, the impact of technological change on printing workers during the period from 1914 to 1920, and the full employment and wage structure existing since 1947. Bibliography pp. 373 to 375.

Contents

Craft gilds and Stationers' Company ( -1660) -- Decline of Stationers' Company (1660-1780) -- Unlawful and dictatorial combinations -- The birth of collective bargaining -- Regional and national unions -- The problems of unemployment -- Consolidation of the craft unions -- Control of labour supply -- Regulation by union rule -- The technical revolution -- Composing machines -- Flood tide of trade unionism -- Bilateral collective bargaining -- War and boom 1914-20 -- Uneasy truce -- The joint industrial council -- Terms of employment -- The Second World War (1939-46) -- Search for a wages structure (1947-51) -- Bargaining on labour supply (1952-56) -- Productivity bargaining (1959-64).