History A-Level
Leadership and ideology in the labour movement
What Leadership and ideology in the labour movement means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Leadership and ideology in the labour movement
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Larkin led militant strikes and the ITGWU, Connolly was a socialist theorist and organiser, and Murphy organised employer opposition.
Topics that use Leadership and ideology in the labour movement
- Paper 3, Option 36.2: Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 - 5 Improving working and living conditions: trades union militancy in Ireland, 1907–14 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- The rise of unskilled unionism
- The role of the Trades Union Congress in Irish affairs
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