TY - JOUR
AU - White, Joseph
AB - Reviews of Books working methods, and the economics of colliery Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1985. enterprise. A certain degree of schofarly courage is Pp. xi, 619. $67.00. also visible on these same pages, for Church has not This book covers what is arguably the most impor- flinched at the prospect of dissenting from conven- tant period in the entire history of British trade tional wisdom. Thus, using output per worker-hour instead of output per worker-year, the author ar- unionism. At the end of volume 1, which appeared in 1964, Hugh Armstrong Clegg and his collabora- gues that there was no substantial fall in productivity tors questioned whether it was advisable to speak of in the decades before 1909. Furthermore, Church acquits the mine managers of the charge of entre- a single labor movement as late as 1910. In volume 2 the question does not even arise. Beginning with preneurial failure in their refusal to race to intro- the upsurge in numbers and militancy in the years duce cutting equipment. Similarly upbeat conclu- preceding World War I, the unions and their mem- sions emerge in regard to the lives and health of bers were in for a tumultuous 
TI - hugh armstrong clegg. A History of British Trade Unions since 1889. Volume 2, 1911–1933. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1985. P ...
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/93.2.418
DA - 1988-04-01
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SP - 418
EP - 419
VL - 93
IS - 2
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