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The coal-war in Britain: a study of working-class economics and tradeunion organization (April-June, 1921). by Herbert Tracey
Class Trap 2008
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In the postwar years, a tradeunion movement grew rapidly—as rapidly perhaps as industrial combination.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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In the postwar years, a tradeunion movement grew rapidly—as rapidly perhaps as industrial combination.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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In the postwar years, a tradeunion movement grew rapidly—as rapidly perhaps as industrial combination.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Bankers and business men, shipping magnates, tradeunion leaders, all are willing to deal with actualities, and to throw aside outworn practices and shibboleths.
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Among all the leaders of the working class, it is the tradeunion leaders who have been most sympathetically treated in the literature of the social sciences.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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The tradeunion leaders have been deliberately contrasted with the verbal revolutionists who guide the political labour movement, men of the type of the loquacious Rabagas in Sardou's play, and, not without exaggeration, there has been ascribed to the former a sound political sense which is supposed to be lacking in the latter -- an insight into the extraordinary complexity of social and economic life and a keen understanding of the politically practicable.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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In France, where it is still the rule to pay the tradeunion leaders very small salaries, there is lacking a new generation of leaders ready to take the place of the old, and for this reason at the trade-union congresses the same members continually appear as delegates.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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In Germany, the leaders of the Socialist Party and the tradeunion leaders at first looked askance at the Young Socialist movement.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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The analyses produced by many authors of the psychology of tradeunion leaders remind us at times of the reports of travelers in foreign lands, who tell us of human beings altogether different from those with whom we are acquainted, and even of actions which appear utterly opposed to nature.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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