Catherine Ann Cline

Labour's war : the Labour Party during the Second World War

Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Road from 1931 2. Forward to War 1939-1940 3. Coalition and its Discontents 4. Policy-Making 1941-1943 5. Labour in the Coalition 6. Labour and Economic Policy during the Second World War 7. Socialism and the War: Old Problems and New Country 8. Forward to Peace 1944-1945 Conclusion Bibliography Index.

Shop floor bargaining and the state : historical and comparative perspectives

Acknowledgments 1. Shop floor bargaining and the state: a contradictory relationship Jonathan Zeitlin 2. Dilution, trade unionism and the state in Britain during the First World War Alastair Reid 3. Public policy and port labour reform: the dock decasualisation issue, 1910-50 Noel Whiteside 4. Government, employers and shop floor organisation in the British motor industry, 1939-69 Steven Tolliday 5. The snares of liberalism? Politicians, bureaucrats, and the shaping of federal labour relations policy in the United States, ca. 1915-47 Howell Harris 6. Politics, law and shop floor bargaining in postwar Italy Giovanni Contini 7. Controlling production on the shop floor: the role of state administration and regulation in the British and American aerospace industries Bryn Jones Index.

The Church and The Movement for Congo Reform

When Christian missionaries returned to the Congo in the nineteenth century, all traces of the promising Portuguese missionary effort of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries had been obliterated. The Kingdom of the Congo which had produced several generations of Christian Kings, thousands of converts, even an African clergy and an African Bishop, had been literally swept away by the European slave trade. The Church had paid a heavy price for its failure to restrain the greed of the faithful, and one would scarcely expect to find the error repeated. Furthermore, the intervening centuries had produced in Europe a growth of humanitarian sentiment which had sensitized the Christian conscience to the suffering of the oppressed; indeed this concern for the temporal welfare of the African had been an important factor in the outburst of nineteenth century missionary activity. Yet when this second encounter of European and African produced in the Congo Free State a form of exploitation which rivalled the first in its brutality, dedicated Catholic missionaries and zealous Catholic prelates staunchly defended the regime against the attacks of reformers. The explanation of this melancholy episode appears to lie in the fact that sectarian interest, national loyalty, and an overwhelming faith in the benefits of Europeanization were allowed to obscure the essential facts.