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  • Spindle and Flyer Makers Quick View
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    • Spindle and Flyer Makers

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    • The United Operative Spindle and Flyer Makers’ Trade and Friendly Society was founded in 1856 and was one of the longest surviving Unions making textile machines and fittings. In 1860 the Union applied to join the Amalgamated Society of Engineers but was refused on the grounds that its members were not skilled tradesmen. The Union developed independently and reached a…
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  • Striving For Equality, Freedom and Justice: Embracing Roots, Culture and Identity Quick View
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    • The Amalgamated Society of Core Makers

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    • The Amalgamated Society of Core Makers of Great Britain and Ireland (ASC) was a trade union representing foundry workers in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1902 by a large number of local unions, with a total membership of less than 1,000. About half the members came from the Manchester and District Coremakers’ Society, the largest of the…
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    • The Commonwealth of Britain

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    • Doug Nicholls was first elected as a trade union General Secretary in 1987 and retired as General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions in 2023 as the longest serving union secretary of his generation. This collection celebrates Britain’s red thread of progressive thinking from the early concepts of an egalitarian commonwealth, to the actual first republic, and the…
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  • The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it) Quick View
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    • The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it)

    • Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £6.00.
    • We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this happening? Sometimes we are told that wages are too high, or that the government has “printed” too much money, or that events far away, such as the war in Ukraine, are solely to blame.…
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    • The Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers Union

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    • The Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers Union (DWRGLU), often known as the Dockers’ Union, was a British trade union representing dock workers in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1887 as the Tea Operatives and General Labourers’ Association, to organise opposition to a cut in wages for workers involved in unloading and processing tea at the East…
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    • The Many Not The Few

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    • An illustrated history of Britain shaped by the people A union rep and his granddaughter discuss the history of the labour movement, from the 14th century right up to today. Sean Michael Wilson has done a brilliant job assembling his workers’ manifesto, with the stoic assistance of historical advisor Doug Nicholls. Robert Brown’s simple, straightforward no-nonsense black and white art…
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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 United Kingdom Society of Coach Makers Quick View
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    • The United Kingdom Society of Coach Makers

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    • The United Kingdom Society of Coachmakers was formed in 1834 by the Liverpool and Manchester Coachmakers’ Societies after they had co-operated during a strike. In 1919 it amalgamated with the London and Provincial Coachmakers’ Society, the Operative Coachmakers and Wheelwrights’ Federal Labour Union, and the London Coachsmiths and Vicemen’s Trade Society to form the National Union of Vehicle Builders. In…
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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.Current 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 Quick View
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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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