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 Author Name: Jenkins, Clive and Mortimer, J. E.
Title: The Kind of Laws the Unions Ought to Want
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good +
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: London Pergamon Press 1968
Seller ID: 001122
184pp inc index - In this volume the authors "argue the case for more legislation to protect trade union rights and to establish or bring about certain improvements in minimum labour standards" in the halcyon days before Thatcher and Reagan virtually killed the unions. The book deals with Collective Bargaining, Employment security and rights, Pensions and Minimum Wage laws. It's immaculate inside with some edge and shelf wear to the covers,
Jenkins, who left school at 14, became General Secretary of ASSETin 1961 and, later, General Secretary of ASTMS following the merger of ASSET with the Association of Scientific Workers in 1968. He became a particularly well-known public figure in the 1970s when the growth in 'white-collar' unionism began. Jenkins was a member of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) General Council 1974-1989. Jenkins was briefly a member of the Communist Party until 1954. He joined the Labour Party in 1945 and served the party in various official capacities. He died in 1999.
Mortimer wrote many books on the history of the trade union movement including: History of the Boiler-makers' Society, vols. 1 and 3 and A History of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen and his autobiography A Life on the Left .
Mortimer was born in 1921. He also started work at 15 as a ship fitter’s apprentice. Like Jenkins, he too spent a brief period in the Young Communists, and then went on to a post in the economic department of the TUC, and as a national official in his own union, a full-time post on the Prices and Incomes Board under Harold Wilson’s government, the first Chair of ACAS and then General Secretary of the Labour Party under Michael Foot until his retirement in 1985.
Law, Labour, Trade Union, Unionism, Workers, Collective Bargaining, Employment, Pension, Minimum Wage, Clive Jenkins, J. E. Mortimer
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