History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards

by Day,Ann; Day,Ann

• ISBN13: 9780720123494
• ISBN10: 0720123496
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Focusing on the work and labor history of shipyard workers in the Royal Dockyards, this text examines the question of state employment and the specific characteristics of that pattern of industrial relations. It encompasses discussions of the nature of work and resistance to forms of authority. Particular forms of control are available to the employer which are absent from the experience of the private sector. In addition, the state is often under pressure to act as a model employer, and this can lead to tensions between this objective and the need for financial constraint and public surveillance of the uses of taxation.

Author Biography

Kenneth Lunn is Reader in Social History at the University of Portsmouth Ann Day is a Research Associate at the University of Portsmouth Roger Knight is the Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum Roger Morriss is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London and in the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter Philip MacDougall is a former tutor at the University of Kent Neil Casey lectures in sociology at the University College of St Mark and St John. Mavis Waters retired recently from York University, Ontario, Canada Peter Galliver is currently Head of History at Ampleforth College Kenneth Lunn is Reader in Social History at the University of Portsmouth. Ann Day is Research Associate in Local History at the University of Portsmouth Alex Law is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Abertay, Dundee

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Preface and Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	xi
Kenneth Lunn
Ann Day
From Impressment to Task Work: Strikes and Disruption in the Royal Dockyards, 1688--1788	1	(20)
Roger Knight
Government and Community: The Changing Context of Labour Relations, 1770--1830	21	(20)
Roger Morriss
The Changing Nature of the Dockyard Dispute, 1790--1840	41	(25)
Philip MacDougall
Class Rule: The Hegemonic Role of the Royal Dockyard Schools, 1840--1914	66	(21)
Neil Casey
The Dockyardmen Speak Out: Petition and Tradition in Chatham Dockyard, 1860--1906	87	(12)
Mavis Waters
Trade Unionism in Portsmouth Dockyard, 1880--1914: Change and Continuity	99	(28)
Peter Galliver
Continuity and Change: Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards, 1914--50	127	(24)
Kenneth Lunn
Ann Day
Neither Colonial nor Historic: Workers' Organization at Rosyth Dockyard, 1945--95	151	(28)
Alex Law
The Way Forward? The Royal Dockyards since 1945	179	(14)
Kenneth Lunn
Index	193