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	Trades Union Congress - Wikinfo
		The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a British organisation that represents the nations's trade unions.
		A list of all the unions affiliated to the TUC can be found [here].
		The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Trades_Union_Congress (1003 words)

	Affiliated trade union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since then, the unions have retained close institutional links with the Party, although these arrangements have been strained significantly in recent years, with the RMT and FBU severing their links.
		Unions select twelve of the thirty-two members of the Labour National Executive Committee and elect fifty per cent of the delegates to Labour Party Conference.
		In many cases, local union branches also affiliate to Constituency Labour Parties and their members who are also individual members of the Party may represent the Union as delegates on Labour Party structures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Affiliated_trade_union (296 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trade Unions Congress (TUC) is a federation of trade unions in the United Kingdom, representing the majority of labour unions.
		The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary, currently Brendan Barber.
		The leading member unions of the TUC formed and still largely fund the British Labour Party, but there is no formal link between the TUC and the party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trade_Union_Congress (391 words)

	Trades Union Congress
		The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a British organisation that represents the nations's trade unions.
		A list of all the unions affiliated to the TUC can be found [here].
		The leader of the TUC is the General Secretary.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/tr/trades_union_congress.html (293 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Their union into one single productive body and the establishment of a connexion between their individual functions, are matters foreign and external to them, are not their own act, but the act of the capital that brings and keeps them together.
		On the one hand, it arises from the union of various independent handicrafts, which become stripped of their independence and specialised to such an extent as to be reduced to mere supplementary partial processes in the production of one particular commodity.
		He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." After describing the stupidity of the detail labourer he goes on: "The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind...
	publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu /academics/faculty/lloyd/projects/ifpetext/marx_part4.htm (16438 words)

	Marx, Capital, Volume I, Part IV, Chapter 15: Library of Economics and Liberty
		For example, in the manufacture of envelopes, one man folded the paper with the folder, another laid on the gum, a third turned the flap over, on which the device is impressed, a fourth embossed the device, and so on; and for each of these operations the envelope had to change hands.
		This contradiction comes to light, as soon as by the general employment of machinery in a given industry, the value of the machine-produced commodity regulates the value of all commodities of the same sort; and it is this contradiction, that in its turn, drives the capitalist, without his being conscious of the fact,
		Generally speaking, the mode of producing relative surplus-value consists in raising the productive power of the workman, so as to enable him to produce more in a given time with the same expenditure of labour.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Marx/mrxCpA15.html (12891 words)

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		On a closer examination of the working machine proper, we find in it, as a general rule, though often, no doubt, under very altered forms, the apparatus and tools used by the handicraftsman or manufacturing workman; with this difference, that instead of being human implements, they are the implements of a mechanism, or mechanical implements.
		As the use of machinery becomes more general in a particular industry, the social value of the product sinks down to its individual value, and the law that surplus-value does not arise from the labour-power that has been replaced by the machinery, but from the labour-power actually employed in working with the machinery, asserts itself.
		The Emperor Charles VI, on 9th Feb., 1719, renewed the edict of 1685, and not till 1765 was its use openly allowed in the Electorate of Saxony, This machine, which shook Europe to its foundations, was in fact the precursor of the mule and the power-loom, and of the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/marx/cap1/chap15 (13428 words)

	Lancashire Textile Manufacturers' Association (LTMA) representing the textile industry.
		Trade unions have suffered their largest fall in membership for nine years, government figures have revealed.
		Only one in six workers (16.6 percent) in the private sector were union members in 2006, down a 0.6 percentage point from 2005.
		Trade unions were present in 86.8 per cent of UK public - sector workplaces.
	www.ltma.co.uk (903 words)

	Trade Unions and Industrial Relations Worksheet (Tutor Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Trade unions are affiliated to the TUC because they know that acting together they will have a more powerful and effective voice if they work together to protect the rights of working people.
		Unions reached their heyday in the late '70s and membership numbers have declined since.
		Trade Unions are far more likely to become involved in a dispute where an employer is not behaving as a good employer should.
	www.bized.ac.uk /learn/business/hrm/employ/union/tutor.htm (1039 words)

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		My attention was drawn to the application of the Jacquard principle to a loom engaged in weaving a calico fabric, of various colours woven with a pattern, and thus producing an elegant article, thick, and well adapted for bed-furniture.
		But he was also kind-hearted and high-principled, and it is this union of remarkable qualities which gives his memoirs their best value.
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	www.gutenberg.org /files/17303/17303.txt (17087 words)

	Guardian \| A lot of cooks involved in this Italian stew
		Trade union merger stories are usually about smokestack industry guilds and societies being swallowed whole by the General Municipal or the Transport and General.
		They are both richer than most unions and protective of their cash piles, though it is not known if they signed a pre-nup should one of them file for divorce.
		The General Union of Loom Overlookers has 280 members and must be open to offers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4828364-103676,00.html (850 words)

	Economic Manuscripts: Capital Vol. I — Chapter Fifteen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It either generates its own motive power, like the steam-engine, the caloric engine, the electromagnetic machine, andc., or it receives its impulse from some already existing natural force, like the water-wheel from a head of water, the wind-mill from wind, andc.
		The distinction between these tools and the body proper of the machine, exists from their very birth; for they continue for the most part to be produced by handicraft, or by manufacture, and are afterwards fitted into the body of the machine, which is the product of machinery.
		This machine, which shook Europe to its foundations, was in fact the precursor of the mule and the power-loom, and of the industrial revolution of the 18th century.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm (15730 words)

	(Text-only) General Strike 1842 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The idea for a general strike had been worked out in detail more than a decade before the events of 1842 by William Benbow, a self-educated Lancashire radical who had been involved in the Hampden Clubs after the Napoleonic wars, and later played a part in establishing the National Union of the Working Classes.
		Over the same period, the unions were also developing - changing in kind from secretive brotherhoods with pseudo-masonic rituals into early industry-wide organisations of the sort that would, despite the setbacks of the early 1830s, become commonplace in mid and late Victorian Britain.
		All the evidence seems to show, however, that the same individuals were called on time and again both to hold office in their local union organisations and to represent their communities in the wider Chartist networks.
	text.chartists.net /General-Strike-1842 (2052 words)

	CHAPTER IV
		Within its hide-bound sides are safely stowed away the love-letters of a past generation,– love-letters that agitated the hearts of the grandparents of to-day; and I wonder that their resistless ardor has not long ago burst its wrinkled sides.
		They were generally of good morals and temperate habits, and often exercised a good influence over their help.
		Those of the mill-girls who had homes generally worked from eight to ten months in the year; the rest of the time was spent with parents or friends.
	www.oberlin.edu /history/GJK/H258S2000/LoomSpindle-ch4.html (4028 words)

	Burnley News - Burnley Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Officials representing employees belonging to the General Union of Loom Overlookers and the Transport and General Workers' Union were told that they had won the maximum award of 90 days on behalf of 129 employees who were dismissed in June 2005, by administrative receivers PKF.
		Mr Don Rishton, general secretary of the General Union of Loom Overlookers, said that while he was "delighted'' with the result he was conscious that it "did little to replace the loss of a highly efficient company and the 156 jobs it supported.''
		Mr Rishton said that employees and unions were "bitterly disappointed'' that the receivers did not sell Perseverance as a going concern, adding: "At the time we were furious that we were excluded when there were numerous expressions of interest in buying the company.
	www.eastlancashireonline.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=12&ArticleID=1337493 (510 words)

	Trades Union Congress : Trade unionism Predominantly 1960-70
		Responses from individual unions to General Council proposals on reform of TUC structure, women trade unionists, inter-union arrangements, recruitment and industrial disputes.
		The legislation was opposed by the trade union movement for its attempts to reform collective bargaining and to impose statutory financial penalties for non-compliance.
		Responses from trade unions to TUC circular 105 to ascertain the effects of the Rookes v.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/292b0.htm (3180 words)

	politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Could Labour’s selection process make it vulnerable to attack?
		At conference the unions have 50% of the vote so they are unlikely to abolish their share in the leadership electoral college.
		Trade Unions have to ballot their members before casting their votes but the leadership can influence in two ways, they can recommend totheir members and they can choose whether to cast all their votes for the highest candidate or break it proportionately.
		However when you take into account the fact that many big public sector unions (civil service unions, teaching unions, even the FBU now) are not affiliated to the Labour party then there are possibly more private sector members of unions with a say in the leadership than public sector.
	politicalbetting.com /index.php/archives/2005/12/01/could-labours-selection-process-make-it-vulnerable-to-attack (7438 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Verbatim report of Congress 1997, Monday 8th September session.
		I am here to raise a very serious question: the decision by the General Purposes Committee not to include on the agenda one of our amendments ‑‑ it could have been any of your amendments, frankly, and it might be.
		It is wrong that the very limited opportunities that unions have to present business before this agenda can be ruled out of order in what is a very arbitrary fashion.
		From the TUAC we have John Evans (General Secretary) and from the ILO Peter Brannen, director of the London office.
	www.tuc.org.uk /congress/tuc-2422-f1.cfm (1337 words)

	Woolen Industry in England
		By the 1840s the handloom weaver and the power loom weaver were in competition in the woolen industry.
		Until child labor reform laws restricted young children from working in the mills, piecers were general children whose hands were small and agile enough to reach in and retie the threads.
		Power looms were then just being introduced, but weaving by hand continued to some extent for about ten years.
	www.maggieblanck.com /Land/WE.html (7146 words)

	Duncan Hallas: White collar workers (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Second, the level of trade union organisation among white collar workers as a whole is somewhat lower than among manual workers (40 per cent organised as compared to 53 per cent).
		White-collar unions nowadays are, generally speaking, led by the same kinds of social-democrats as manual unions.
		On the contrary, IS members must be the most regular and active attenders of branch meetings, must contest delegacies and elections to higher union bodies on the basis of a rank and file programme and take their full share of the routine work of the branch.
	www.marxists.org /archive/hallas/works/1974/10/whitecoll.htm (7340 words)

	Trades Union Congress -
		TUC membership now stands at 67 unions, representing nearly six and a half million people (For previous years' total membership figures, Presidents of Congress and TUC General Secretaries, please click here).
		Whilst TUC unions represent the vast majority of trade unionists in Britain there are a number of unions which are not affiliated.
		Most of these are small organisations representing specialist staff and in many cases employees of a particular organisation, there are however some substantial organisations which are outside the TUC.
	www.tuc.org.uk /tuc/unions_main.cfm?themebb=newunionism (1642 words)

	Unions Together - TULO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Michael Bradley, General* Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions represents member unions of the GFTU when they are unable to attend the Liaison Committee (BECTU, BFAWU, Community, GULO, MU, NACODS, and UNITY).
		Mike Griffiths is the Convenor of the Trade Union section of the NEC.
		Labour MSP's are also organised into their own Trade Union Groups.
	www.unionstogether.org.uk /contacts.html (799 words)

	Bambooweb: Trades Union Congress
		The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a British organisation that represents the nation's trade unions.
		A list of all the unions affiliated to the TUC can be found General Secretary.
		National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT)
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/t/r/Trades_Union_Congress.html (117 words)

	Trades Union Congress, additional files 1920-60
		Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [947], Predominantly 1920-60
		The Parliamentary Committee and General Council minutes, Annual Congress Reports, TUC pamphlets and selected other series of papers are also available in microform.
		The TUC was formed in Manchester in 1868 as a voluntary association of trade unions.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/292c.htm (3390 words)

	Trade Unions Affiliated to the TUC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The trade unions which make up the TUC are all very different.
		Some TUC unions are made up of people who do a particular job or work in a specific industry.
		Browse through this list and you'll find the major 'general' unions, representing workers across many occupational areas, as well as some smaller unions covering employees in very narrowly defined industries.
	www.bized.ac.uk /compfact/tuc/tuc5.htm (180 words)

	Trade Unions Affiliated to the TUC
		Many of the unions affiliated to the TUC have more than 100,000 members.
		Some TUC unions are made up of people who do a particular job or work in a specific industry.
		Browse through this list and you'll find the major 'general' unions, representing workers across many occupational areas, as well as some smaller unions covering employees in very narrowly defined industries.
	www.bized.co.uk /compfact/tuc/tuc5.htm (180 words)

	The Unions from Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Unions from Russell Jones and Walker Solicitors
		Bookmark this page for an alphabetical list of unions with a link to their website.
		The trade union and professional association for family court and probation staff
	www.rjw.co.uk /our-expertise/trade-unions/the-unions (127 words)

	MoreThanWork.net: union finder
		unions who work for a particular employer or closely linked employers
		The recognised specialist union for school improvement professionals
		Represents staff grades at Diageo, including Guinness, in the UK The union of choice for senior public sector managers and professionals
	morethanwork.worksmart.org.uk /unionfinder/type.php?type=4 (275 words)

	Union Enquiries: Supporting Lifelong Learning
		Please help us to develop our communications and to increase the sharing of information with your union by answering the three questions below.
		NAPO The Trade Union and Professional Association for Family Court and Probation Staff
		If your Union is not listed, please select 'Other' in the list and let us know by emailing us
	www7.open.ac.uk /planning/union/submitinput.asp (236 words)

	I-resign.com - Resigning - Trade Unions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		If you're a member of a Trade Union or professional society, don't forget to let their Membership administrators know that you're moving to a new firm.
		The TUC have reminded us that an employee can be a member of more than on trade union if required.
		For example, if you're a member of a union that represents public sector workers and your new firm is in the private sector, you may want to join a new union which is able to represent you.
	www.i-resign.com /uk/resignationkit/unions.asp (1694 words)

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