Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half of the 20th Century on the people who maintained British railway services and reveals the change which took place in the union to which most of them belonged: the National Union of Railwaymen (now part of the National Union of Rail and Maritime Transport Workers: RMT). The union’s reaction to the Beeching closures of the 1960s and the Industrial Relations Act of 1971, its policies on the closed shop, inter-union rivalries, representation in Parliament and the constitution of the Labour Party are treated authoritatively by the author who had access to all the union’s records.
Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half of the 20th Century on the people who maintained British railway services.
Reviews
Review of the original edition of The Railwaymen:
Dr. Bagwell has produced a very readable account of the activities of the NUR (National Union of Railwaymen in the post-war period Derek H. Aldcroft, The Economic History Review, 35 (3).
1. British Transport Developments Since 1945
2. The Railway Workforce
3.
The Organisation of the Union
4. The Beeching Era
5. Pay and Efficiency I
6.
Pay and Efficiency II And After
7. Negotiating Under the Industrial
Relations Act, 1971-2
8. London Transport
9. The NUR in Buses, Docks, Hotels
and Catering
10. Conditions of Service
11. Inter-Union Relations
12. The NUR
and Politics
13. The NUR and Education.
Philip Bagwell was an eminent British labour and transport historian whose work was described as 'magisterial'.
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