Solidarity: The First 100 Years of the International Transport Workers' Federation
From the back cover
Rotterdam dockers called upon their European colleagues to support a strike in 1896. As a direct result of the practical solidarity by seafarers a new organisation was born. In 1996 the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) celebrates 100 years of solidarity. Numerous industrial disputes throughout the world have been supported by the ITF and its member unions. The Federation can be proud of a rich and heroic past.
This book is published jointly by the ITF and Pluto Press as part of the extensive programme of celebrations of the ITF's centenary year.
Entire Book is available for download by ITF affiliates, trade union organisations, and interested parties.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Transport in the Late Nineteenth Centrury
- Chapter 2: The State Fights Back
- Chapter 3: The Move to Germany
- Chapter 4: 'The Yellow Peril'
- Chapter 5: The ITF's Early Industrial Work
- Chapter 6: Refoundation
- Chapter 7: Fighting Fascism
- Chapter 8: Outside Europe
- Chapter 9: The Second World War
- Chapter 10: Post-war Reconstruction
- Chapter 11: The Cold War
- Chapter 12: Decolonisation and the Regions
- Chapter 13: The ITF and the Changing Nature of Transport
- Chapter 14: Flags of Convenience
- Chapter 15: The Membership Explosion in the 1960s
- Chapter 16: Towards the Next Millenium
- Appendix I: ITF Congresses
- Appendix II: ITF Presidents and General Secretaries
- Index
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