Trades Unions Congress - 1920 - 1960 Additional records

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Reference code(s): MSS.292C

Title: Trades Unions Congress - 1920 - 1960 Additional records

Date(s): 1920 - 1960

Level of description: fond

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Administrative/Biographical history: The TUC was formed in Manchester in 1898 as a voluntary association of trade unions. The organisation is governed by an annual congress which determines policy. Between 1869 and 1921 the administrative work of the Congress was carried out by the Parliamentary Committee. Since 1921 this work has been carried out by the General Council and by a gradually increasing number of committees including finance and General Purposes, Disputes, Education, Organisations, Social Insurance, International, Economic and Production. The TUC began depositing its records at the MRC in 1987 and has continued to make regular updates. An initial three-year project to catalogue the TUC archive 12920-60 and to publicise the archive was made possible by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. In 1995 funding was obtained from the Higher Education Funding Council for England which has enabled the next tranche of the TUC archive, 1960 - 70 and this additional 1920-60 material to be catalogued.

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Scope and content: The records are arranged by subject in the TUC registry according to a decimal classification scheme which forms the basis of the TUC catalogue. The entry system which highlights the scope of the collection is as follows: trade unionism, Labour conditions, industrial relations, capitalism, public finance, commerce and economics, Industries, Politics and government, publicity, social issues and international issues.Subject headings of note include: The Americas, colonial questions, and Coloured Film Artistes' Association,. Issues detailed include visits to India and the Caribbean; trade unions in the British colonies; and the activities of the Coloured Film Artises' Association. files on the Movement for Colonial Freedom, the Overseas Employers' Federation, TUC assistance to trade unions in British colonies, the World Federation of Trade Unions sponsored 1947 Pan- African Trade Union Information Conference and the Colonial Labour Advisory Committee, 1937 - 62. There are also records about British labour relations in the colonies pan-Africanism, and the movement for colonial freedom.

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Recorder's note: Fully indexed July 2002 MR.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Interest: Black, Asian, Caribbean

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Decolonization

Pan-Africanism

Colonial countries

Trade unions

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Coloured Film Artistes' Association

Movement for Colonial Freedom

Overseas Employers' Federation

Colonial Labour Advisory Committee

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