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The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man
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- The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man is a collaboration between poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan and several times Cartoonist of the Year Tony Husband. The book tells the story, in six-line rhyming stanzas, of a young lad from a Yorkshire pit village who finds himself caught up in the terrible slaughter of the First World War and records the…
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The Workers’ Committee
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- The Workers’ Committee is classic and important text exploring the incredible organisation of the first Shop Stewards’ Movement in early 20th century Britain. Discussing the development of shopfloor power and how to organise industrially, sectorally and geographically, Murphy’s text holds many ideas important to today’s struggles, including what next for the strike wave and how do we continue to build…
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Three Book Bundle
- Original price was: £27.49.£20.00Current price is: £20.00.
- Get a great deal by buying all three of the latest books to arrive in the GFTU online bookshop. Buy all three books and get a £7.49 discount on our regular sale prices. For more details of each book, click on an individual title in the shop. Free Postage
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Trade Union Education
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- Trade union education has been in the doldrums for years – it generally lacks modern teaching methods, has outdated content and avoids key areas of history, economics and politics. This book aims to change all that – to mark out new ground that will bring trade union education back to life. This book has inspired new courses to train people…
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What’s the Big Idea
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When We Were Almost Like Men
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- When We Were Almost Like Men explores the world of the modern courier industry, the working lives of the men and women caught inside the machinery of the modern city. From controllers to couriers, telephonists to mechanics, supervisors to sales reps, Martin Hayes is a guide to a kind of hell that is simultaneously fascinating, depressing, hopeless and hilarious, exploring…
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Workers’ Play Time
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- Seven Scripts from Seven Struggles Edited by Doug Nicholls There is a rich tradition of theatre dealing with workers’ and trade union struggles through the centuries that can go unacknowledged by the literary mainstream. Often, such plays are staged in alternative venues and too often their scripts are not gathered in any archive and are in danger of being lost.…
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Yours For The Revolution – The Evolution of Tom Mann’s Political Thought
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- Tom Mann remains Britain’s most accomplished trade unionist but each generation has to rediscover him. With the current union upsurge his time has come round again. Mann’s theory of socialism and class organisation was literally forged in the fiercest and most decisive union battles, extending over a fifty year period. Yet little is known of his activity in the last…
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