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Sherbet Dab by Digital:works

An Oral History of the London Cabbie

These are the stories of London and Londoners, new and old. Some take us back to 1950s London when many of the drivers were Jewish. These were the days of the closed shop, pea-souper fogs, driving heavy, cold cabs on empty streets.

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Category: VOLUME FIVE

Tackling Tebbit! A TGWU Guide for Shop Stewards (1982)

Transport & General Workers Union Pamphlet

This booklet explained the proposed anti-union legislation by Norman Tebbit, then Secretary of State for Employment, and suggestions of how to combat this threat.

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Category: VOLUME FOUR

Racialism, Fascism and the Trade Unions (1974)

Transport & General Workers Union Pamphlet

 

This pamphlet detailed the National Front's racist and fascist doctrine and presented an appeal to workers and trade unionists alike to reject the propaganda and rhetoric espoused by the group.

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Category: VOLUME FIVE

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An Oral History of London Bus Workers

By Digital Works

 

This project is an oral history of the workers on the iconic London Bus, exploring the lives of drivers, conductors, cleaners, mechanics and designers.

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Category: VOLUME FOUR

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An Oral History of London Bus Workers

By Digital Works

 

This project is an oral history of the workers on the iconic London Bus, exploring the lives of drivers, conductors, cleaners, mechanics and designers.

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Category: NEY&H

Cloth Workers Strike in Halifax in 1925

 

This is a remarkable success story where 10,000 local members of National Union of Textile Workers joined around 150,000 + members regionally to win a battle over pay. Combined with a temporary solution to the then coal crisis the textile workers victory boosted the morale of the trade union movement and suggested that if trade unionists, with the assistance of the relatively new Trades Union Congress General Council, could achieve unity in action then it was possible to defeat attacks on pay and conditions.

 

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The T & G Story

 

The Transport and General Workers Union was the biggest trade union in Britain for much of the 20th century, with its membership in the late 1970s reaching more than two million. It organised workers across the whole economy - from the docks to the car factories, from light engineering to aviation - and its activities touched the lives of many.