PAUL FERRIS - The New Militants. Crisis in the Trade Unions

Harmondsworth, England, Penguin, 1972. 1st Paperback Edition, Binding: Soft Cover, Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 0140523014 Paperback Paperback. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. Previous owners name and address ticker to inside cover. What are trade unionists fighting for and what explains their new militancy? Have the workers turned greed? Have they been 'sold down the line' time and time again? Are they scared stiff about their jobs under the impact of the new streamlined technology? The author here looks at the present confused scene in British industry. He explains, by reference to recent major disputes, how the interdependency of modern manufacturing and commerce gives the unions added strength and encourages workers to push demands of a wholly new type. And here, as in his other books, Paul Ferris allows the protagonists to speak for themselves in his interveiws with trade unionists, manager and men concerned with industrial relations. From usch evidence, taken 'on the site', he does much to answer the question: 'What's at the back of present industrial trouble?'. 112 pp.