The story of the engineers : 1800 - 1945 / James Jefferys

PART ONE: 1800-1852. THE BIRTH OF THE INDUSTRY AND THE FIRST TRADE UNIONS AMONG ENGINEERS. CHAPTER I. The Revolution in the Tools - The New Class of Men and their Societies - The End of Experiments: The Hourneymen Steam Engine Machine Makers' and Millwrights' Friendly Society-Joint Committees and the Newton-le-Willows Dispute-Amalgamation. CHAPTER II. The Testing Time: The 1852 Lock-out. The Oldham Dispute - The Lock-out - Rebuilding the Society - William Newton. PART TWO, 1852-1892. THE AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS IN THE WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD. INTRODUCTION: THE INDUSTRY, THE TOOLS, AND THE ENGINEER, 1852-1892. The Industry - Specialistaion and LImited Liability - Few Changes in the Tools - The Engineer: The Society Member - Unemployment and Travel - Wages adn Hours of Work - Payment by Results - Working Conditions- The Engineer's Spare Time and his Home. CHAPTER III. TRAINING, DISCIPLINE, AND ORGANISTAION, 1852-1866. Building an Organisation - The Autorithy of the Executive - The Society and the Trade Union Movement - William Allan. CHAPTER IV. THE ATTACK ON TRADE UNIONS ADN THE NINE HOURS SUCCESS, 1866-1874. The Counter-attack - Bread and Butter Questions - The Nine Hour Movement - The Rank and File and the Executive. CHAPTER V. OLD METHODS AND NEW CURRENTS, 1874-1892. The Employers Mobilise - The Defence of the Nine Hour Day - Wages and the Development of a District Rate - Resistance to Payment by Results - Entrance to the Trade - The Fight for Jobs: Demarcation - Sectional Societes and Federation - The A.S.E. in the Labour Movement - Internal Problems and Defects - John Burnett - Signs of the Times. PART THREE: 1892-1920. THE AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS IN A CHANGED BRITAIN AND A CHANGING INDUSTRY. INTRODUCTION. THE INDUSTRY, THE TOOLS, AND THE ENGINEER, 1892-1920. Changes in the Products, Specialisation adn Standardisation - The Revolution in the Tooks - New Methods of Workshop Organisation - The Engineer: The Society Member - Finding a Job and Travel - Hours and Methods of Payment - Wage Rates - The Revolution in Workshop Conditions - Living Conditions - The Ward and Immediate Post-War Years. CHAPTER VI. THE NEW SPIRIT AND THE LOCK-OUT, 1892-1898. Reorganisation of the Society - The New Spirit - Formation of the Federation of Employers' Associations - The Lock-out - The Terms of Settlement. CHAPTER VII. NEW TOOLS AND WORKING CONDITIONS AND THE SEARCH FOR A POLICY, 1898-1914.The Terms of Settlement and the Search for a New Trade Policy - Trade Policy: Wage Rates and Payment by Results - The Machine Question - Hours of Work and Demarcation - The Search for New Methods - Procedure, Opposition to Strikes and Parliamentary Action - Federation and Amalgamation - The Search for New Forms of Organisation - Conflict in the Society - The movement for Reform - Overseas Branches. CHAPTAR VIII. ENGINEERS IN THE FIRST WORLD AND THE SECOND AMALGAMATION, 1914-1920. The "Treasury Agreement" and Trouble on the Clyde - Protests Against the Munitions Act - Dilution, the Call-up, and Wages - The Shop Stewards and Workers Committees in the Strikes of May, 1917 - Recognition of Shop Stewards and Growing Opposition to Government Demands - The Post-War : Demand for Shorter Hours - The Effect of the War on the Society - Amalgamation: the Formation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. PART FOUR, 1920-1945. THE AMALGAMATED ENGINEERING UNION IN THE YEARS BETWEEN THE WARS AND IN THE WAR AGAINST FASCIM. INTRODUCTION. THE INDUSTRY, THE TOOLS, AND THE ENGINEER, 1920-1945. The Industry - Combinations: The Post-Ward Boom - The Development of the Tools - Workhsop Organistaion - The Engineer: Entry to the Trade - New Trades and Grades of Skill - The Complicated Wages Structure - Size of Factories and Working Conditions - The Ward and the Engineer, 1930-1945. CHAPTER IX. THE 1922 LOCK-OUT AND THE AFTERMATH, 1922-1926. The Depression sets in - Overtime, the Manning of Machines, and Apprentices - The Lock-Out - The Settlement and the Sequel . Parliamentary Action and the Industrial Alliance - The General Strike. CHAPTER X. THE ENGINEERS IN THE DEPRESSION AND RECOVERY, 1926-1939. Wage Demands and the Engineers's Charter - The Crisis of 1931 - The Beginning of Recovery - The 40 hour Week and the Apprentices - The Machine Question - The Union and the Threat of War. CHAPTER XI. THE ENGINEERS' WAR, 1939-1945. The Union and the Conduct of the War - Producing the Tools - The Defence and Improvement of Wages - The Essential Work Order and Working Conditions - The Challenge to the Union's Organisation - Victory and the Future.