Bill Morris: A Trade Union Miracle (BlackAmber Inspirations) - Softcover

Goodman, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906413428 ISBN 13: 9781906413422

Verlag: Arcadia Books, 2010

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When, in 1991, he became general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union - then the largest trade union in the country - it marked a huge break in the culture of British working class attitudes towards racial discrimination. The first black immigrant to take the top job in any British trade union; the first black immigrant to join the government board of the Bank of England, the first black immigrant to become president of the Trade Union Congress. He was as he says in his book, 'always a first' in this respect. This is the story of his rise to the top of British public life after arriving in Birmingham in the mid 1950s, aged 16, to join his mother who had come to England a short time earlier. Bill Morris was born and brought up in a small rural village about sixty miles from the Jamaican capital, Kingston. As a child his overwhelming ambition was to become a professional cricketer and play for the West Indies; he has had to put up with what he regards as the lesser honour of sitting on the England and Wales Cricket Board at Lords. His story is a fascinating account of a unique rise from the shop floor to national status.

Biografía del autor:

Geoffrey Goodman is a former industrial editor, columnist and assistant editor of the Daily Mirror. He previously reported for the Daily Herald, the Odhams Sun, the News Chronicle and the Manchester Guardian, and was founding editor of the British Journalist Review, where he remains the emeritus chairman. His books include The Awkward Warrior, a biography of the trade union leader Frank Cousins; The Miners' Strike, a history of the 1984-5 miners' strike; The State of the Nation, an analysis of the political legacy of Aneurin Bevan; and From Bevan to Blair, a memoir of 50 years of political reporting. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his services to journalism.

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• Verlag: Arcadia Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1906413428
• ISBN 13: 9781906413422
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194