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The tide of democracy

The tide of democracy

Shipyard workers and social relations in Britain, 18701950

ALASTAIR J. REID

Copyright Alastair J. Reid 2010

The right of Alastair J. Reid to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted
by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN 978 0 7190 8103 3

First published 2010

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Acknowledgements

It is a great pleasure to be able to acknowledge now some of the debts I have accumulated during the many years of work on this book, focusing on the institutions and groups which have provided my immediate working environment, in the hope that my many other obligations have been sufficiently recognised in the references.

As an undergraduate, graduate and junior research fellow, I benefited enormously from the supportive atmosphere at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and would like to thank in particular my first two supervisors, Neil McKendrick and Vic Gatrell, for stimulating my interest in economic and social history; and also my graduate supervisor at nearby Kings College, Gareth Stedman Jones, for encouraging my interest in the combination of history with social theory. I was then very fortunate to be appointed to a fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge and it is hard to imagine a more congenial environment in which to carry out teaching and research: I would like to thank in particular my successive colleagues on the history staff, Betty Wood, Hazel Mills, Ben Griffin and Samantha Williams, for their close cooperation and friendship; and also Jenny Blackhurst and Andrew Leader for their unfailing helpfulness in providing technical support over the final hurdles.

The loneliness of this long-distance researcher was greatly eased by stimulating contact with a succession of networks of other specialists. First by the gathering of a group of graduate students for informal discussions in London which developed into a research project on shop-floor bargaining at Kings College, Cambridge: in these years I benefited especially from regular conversations with Jonathan Zeitlin, Steven Tolliday, Joseph Melling and Keith McClelland. A little later there was a similar gathering around the organisation of a conference on nineteenth-century radicalism at Churchill College, Cambridge during which I benefited especially from discussions with Eugenio Biagini, Pat Thane, Miles Taylor and Jon Lawrence. Finally, in the last stages of the preparation of this book the History and Policy Trade Union Forum has begun to bridge the gap between the academic and organisational worlds, and I have been especially encouraged by the supportive comments of James Moher and Peter Ackers.

This publication has been made possible by a grant from the Scouloudi Foundation in association with the Institute of Historical Research.

Towering over most of this process have been two presences it may seem rather incongruous to place side by side. For one is the very public one of the Cambridge University Library, the resources and staff of which could hardly be bettered for the study of modern British history. The other is a much more private one back at home, where Margaret Dyson has shown an unflagging sympathy and interest in this material at all hours of the day and night.

But it is also appropriate to go back before the beginning and remember my parents who provided the ideal start for an academic career, and so it is with deepest gratitude that this book is now dedicated to them: to my mother Jean and in memory of my father Jack.

Abbreviations

ABS	Associated Blacksmiths Society
AESD	Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen
AEU	Amalgamated Engineering Union
ASCJ	Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners
ASE	Amalgamated Society of Engineers
ASS	Associated Shipwrights Society
ASW	Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers
ASWM	Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists
AUFW	Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers
BSP	British Socialist Party
CSA	Clyde Shipbuilders Association
EEF	Engineering Employers Federation
ETU	Electrical Trades Union
FEST	Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades
GFTU	General Federation of Trade Unions
ILP	Independent Labour Party
LP	Labour Party
LPEC	Labour Party Executive Committee
LRC	Labour Representation Committee
NASOHASPAD	National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators
NAUL	National Amalgamated Union of Labour
NUFW	National Union of Foundry Workers
PC	Parliamentary Committee (of the TUC)
SDF	Social Democratic Federation
SEF	Shipbuilding Employers Federation
SPS	Scottish Painters Society
TGWU	Transport and General Workers Union
TNLU	Tyneside and National Labourers Union
TUC	Trades Union Congress
UOPA	United Operative Plumbers Association
UPA	United Patternmakers Association

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