Paul Dillon charts the history of the Irish Worker In the first issue of the Irish Worker and People’s Advocate in 1911, its editor James Larkin wrote: “Too long, aye! Far too long, have we, the Irish working people been humble and inarticulate. The Irish working class are beginning to awaken. They are coming to […]
Eurofound research presented at a recent seminar in the European Parliament estimated the cost of excluding young people from the labour market at over €100 billion across 21 Member States in 2009. The issue of young people (aged between 16 and 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training (the so-called ‘NEETs’) has […]
‘Where you have what we call sweated trades, you have no organisation, no parity of bargaining, the good employer is undercut by the worst… where those conditions prevail you have not a condition of progress, but a condition of progressive degeneration’ (Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, introducing the Trade Boards Act to […]
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