War, Law, and Labour: The Munitions Acts, State Regulation, and the Unions 1915-1921 [Hardcover]

Gerry Rubin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198255381 | ISBN-13: 978-0198255383 | Publication Date: February 11, 1988

This study of the connection between industrial relations and the law during and directly after the First World War reconstructs the tensions between the corporatist aspirations of the state officials who drafted and attempted to enforce the Munitions Act, and the efforts of organized labor to defend its sectional interests against this corporatist thrust. Rubin analyzes the unions' partial success in turning the Tribunal into a forum for collective bargaining.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"An important contribution to the study of industrial relations in Britain during World War I...Likely to remain the main work on the munitions tribunals for a long time."--American Historical Review

"The work has clearly been well researched, with the author covering a wide range of sources which include governmental archive materials as well as contemporary newspaper reports, and trade union records. The end product is a work of scholarship writtin in a readable style."--Albion

About the Author

Gerry Rubin is at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 308 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 11, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198255381
• ISBN-13: 978-0198255383
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,317,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)