| Description |
1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Revivals Series |
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Routledge Revivals Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps and Graphs -- Foreword -- Preface -- I: Before the Federation -- 1. The Background -- 2. The Sliding Scale -- 3. Resistance to the Sliding Scale -- 4. The Hauliers' Strike -- 5. Troops to Quell the Strikers -- 6. The Hauliers' Strike in Retrospect -- II: Four Cornered Conflict -- 1. Plans for Higher Prices -- 2. Notice to End the Sliding Scale -- 3. Socialist Agitators -- 4. The Appeal to Other Miners |
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5. Negotiations Begin -- 6. The Military Called in -- 7. Debate in Parliament -- 8. Conciliation Rebuffed -- Appendices -- I. On Membership of Trade Unions in the South Wales Valleys -- II. Excerpts from "Justice" and from Keir Hardie's "Labour Leader" 1898 -- III. Sliding Scale Agreement (1898) -- III: First Years of Federation -- 1. The Founding -- 2. The Builders of the Union -- 3. A Federal Union -- 4. A Question of Timing -- 5. Talks "Between Masters and Men" -- 6. The February Conference -- 7. The Adjourned Conference -- 8. The First Conciliation Board |
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9. They Confer at Bath: The End of Pickard's Dream -- 10. The Board in Operation -- Appendices -- I. Excerpts from the Rules (1902) -- II. Excerpts from Pickard's Last Address -- IV: Coal Tax and Conciliation Board -- 1. Parliamentary Representation -- 2. The Coal Tax -- 3. Campaign Continues Against Coal Tax -- 4. A New Chairman and a New Board -- Appendix -- Conciliation Agreement 1905 -- V: Shorter Hours and the Sequel -- 1. Untroubled Seas -- 2. The Campaign for Eight Hours -- 3. A Deputation from the Owners -- 4. A Programmatic Speech -- 5. Strike? or A Parliamentary Bill? |
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6. The Eight Hours' Bill in Parliament -- 7. "Many Defects in the Act" -- 8. Welsh Owners Threaten Lockout -- 9. The Last Days of June 1909 -- 10. Ups and Downs of Wages -- 11. Centralisation (Up to 1908) -- Appendices -- I: Ballot on Labour Party, October 6, 1906 -- II: Tables from Departmental Committee 1909 -- III: Excerpts from Memorandum of Agreement, June 30, 1909 -- VI: The 1910 Wages Agreement -- 1. The New Conciliation Board -- 2. Westminster Conference of March 9, 1910 -- 3. Special Conference of March 29, 1910 -- 4. April Days in Cardiff -- 5. Amendment to the Act? |
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6. Ideological Conflict -- Appendices -- I. Summary of 1910 Wage Agreement -- II. Organisation: Some Observations -- VII: Cambrian Combine Dispute 1910 -- 1. A Lockout and Strike Ballot -- 2. The Aberdare Valley -- 3. The Cambrian Strike Begins -- 4. Clydach Vale and Llwynypia (Monday, November 7, 1910) -- 5. Home Secretary Takes Control (Tuesday, November 8, 1910) -- 6. The Evening of Tuesday, November 8th at Llwynypia -- 7. The Evening of Tuesday, November 8th at Tonypandy -- 8. Churchill Between Two Fires (Wednesday, November 9th) -- 9. The Scene in Parliament (November 15, 1910) |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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10. Major-General Macready |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000963885 |
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1000963888 |
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