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L'État britannique autoritaire - Le cas de la résistance à la dilution à Glasgow en 1915 -1916

Fabien Jeannier

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[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureClyde Workers' Committee[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteraturePremière Guerre mondialerésistanceGlasgowdilution

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This paper presents the case of the resistance to dilution in workshops in and around Glasgow in 1915 and 1916. Dilution was devised by the British government as a way of reorganising the means of production in order to better suit the requirements of the war industry. The government resorted to several Acts of Parliament to implement dilution, censor the press and jail and/ or deport local shop stewards who engaged in a fierce movement of resistance. This short episode of the working class movement in the West of Scotland opposed the shop stewards not only to the British government and their employers but also to their official union representatives. Although it proved to be a failure, the resistance against dilution was one of a series of industrial disputes which were instrumental in establishing the Scottish working class as a political force.

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2011-01-01
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00682092