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A Glorious History: How print and papermaking unions were Britain's labour movement pioneers
TONY BURKE and ANN FIELD talk to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about their new history of the print and papermaking unions of Britain and Ireland
Tony Burke and Ann Field
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A GLORIOUS History, Tony Burke and Ann Field’s new history of the print and papermaking unions of Britain and Ireland, is a glorious spectacle.
The book — launched tonight at the Marx Memorial Library — is a beauty to behold with its reproductions, mostly courtesy of the library’s own Printworkers’ Collection, of print union certificates, posters and photographs of workers in struggle.
Arranged thematically rather than chronologically, the book briskly runs you through interrelated themes like the wages struggle, women’s struggle for equal pay and representation and international solidarity.
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